Subject: Re: Real vfork() (was: third results)
To: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/16/1998 03:03:39
At 0:24 -0700 4/16/98, Ian Dall wrote:
>All I am advocating is that the warning in the man page not to depend
>on the shared memory sematics remain (someone suggested it could go)
>and further that a warning about not depending the parent blocking
>semantics be added.
BUGS
Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of vfork as other
ways of speeding up the fork process may be developed in the future.
Part of your warning is already there.
Erik <fair@clock.org>