vfork under 4.0?

Richard Tobin richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk at nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Mar 9 03:26:07 AEST 1989


Is there any reason to use vfork() under 4.0?  Isn't fork just as
efficient now that copy-on-write is implemented?  I see that the manual
page still says "this system call will be eliminated when proper system
sharing mechanisms are implemented".  Is this just an anachronism, or a
subtle attack on the 4.0 implementation?

-- Richard



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