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> That said, now that multiple tasks can share an MMU context, it would
> probably be quite easy to support vfork() semantics.
All I've ever read on the subject says vfork(2) was an unclean
implementation of fork(2) semantics (sort of) for efficiency sake. It makes
no sense to work to replicate accidental, totally non-wanted and even in
the original explicitly marked as not-to-be-relied-on semantics. Easy to do
or not.
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