Re: Porting vfork()

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:35:44 +1300


On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 03:33:51PM -0800, Mark Jefferys wrote:

> --- fork.2.bak Fri Jan 8 15:29:24 1999
> +++ fork.2 Fri Jan 8 15:29:34 1999
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> .B ENOMEM
> .B fork
> failed to allocate the necessary kernel structures because memory is tight.
> -.SH BUGS
> +.SH NOTES
> Under Linux,
> .B vfork
> is merely an alias for

Indeed -- this is the best patch for `fixing' the vfork bug I've
seen.

-cw

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