Zygote most of the uses of the utility process on Linux

content/browser/utility_process_host.h

Index: content/browser/utility_process_host.h
diff --git a/content/browser/utility_process_host.h b/content/browser/utility_process_host.h
index de5361057282a9ca37a22328a914060dd6e2265c..8e79c2d5538ea7fd461fcc8fedc33b8c2f99ab4a 100644
--- a/content/browser/utility_process_host.h
+++ b/content/browser/utility_process_host.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ class CONTENT_EXPORT UtilityProcessHost : public BrowserChildProcessHost {
   void set_exposed_dir(const FilePath& dir) { exposed_dir_ = dir; }
   void set_no_sandbox(bool flag) { no_sandbox_ = flag; }
   void set_child_flags(int flags) { child_flags_ = flags; }
+  void set_use_linux_zygote(bool flag) { use_linux_zygote_ = flag; }
+
 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
   void set_env(const base::environment_vector& env) { env_ = env; }
 #endif
@@ -105,6 +107,11 @@ class CONTENT_EXPORT UtilityProcessHost : public BrowserChildProcessHost {
 
   base::environment_vector env_;
 
+  // If the |no_sandbox_| flag is off, and we are on Linux, launch the
+  // utility process from the zygote.
+  // Can only be used for tasks that do not require FS access.

[Aaron Boodman, 2011/12/03 04:56:21]

You might want to note that it defaults to true.

+  bool use_linux_zygote_;
+
   bool started_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(UtilityProcessHost);