Re: Porting vfork()

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 09 Jan 1999 11:16:34 -0500

In message <199901081012.FAA22697@saturn.cs.uml.edu>, "Albert D. Cahalan"
write
s:
+-----
| NetBSD has a "Why implement traditional vfork()" page that explains
| why they reimplemented vfork(). It seems vfork() is still good.
|
| http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/vfork.html
+--->8

"It shaves several seconds off a build of libc on a 200MHz PPro."

If the libc build only takes 1-3 minutes I might buy that argument.

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