Re: Porting vfork()

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:50:03 +0100

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>It's fairly simple in the kernel, and I wouldn't mind seeing it in there.
>It inevitably will be more complex in libc, and I'm not sure whether it'd
>be trustable. The kernel version is completely portable, too.

iBCS2 could probably use vfork() in the kernel as well. Some BSD programs
expect it to be present.

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