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SubjectRe: Porting vfork()
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:32:09PM -0500, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
>
> > Why? Why not. It's minor, and if we get it right, every time
> > someone asks how vfork() is supposed to work, you get to point them
> > at Linux. ;-)
>
> Why? -- Please name 5 things that require vfork to work properly.

Four pieces of old software -- unfortunately I don't have any old software
on me at the moment -- plus an OS/processor that can't support fork().

Oh, and, <http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/vfork.html>, just for
the heck of it.

No, not very good excuses. But it's pleasent to make something reasonably
elegant -- and _quite_ traditional -- with so little effort.

--
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)



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