Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:38:14 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: Porting vfork() |
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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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