Re: Change signal mask after vfork/clone system call

[Alan Cox]

> Finally, if using fork should be efficient for starting processes from applications with heavy VM/RSS memory footprint, this question becomes obsolete.

Fork on pretty much any Unix like system around today does copy-on-write
so while not as efficient as vfork should be fine for most purposes.

Alan
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