Re: vfork

Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:01:04 -0500 (EST)

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes the following:
>
>The present page stresses that it may be unwise to think
>these are good reasons. Of course, as soon as you no longer
>connect the BSD vfork with the Linux vfork then Linux got
>a private system call (of which nobody so far has shown the use,
>but which might be useful in special circumstances).

How many people really use clone() directly (as opposed to indirectly through
libc)? Yet there's a clone(2) man page. Actually, why not drop the vfork(2)
man page and add the description of the CLONE_VFORK flag in clone(2). That
might have the psychological effect you're aiming for.

People who want to write high-performance Linux-only stuff should have _some_
documentation to turn to.

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