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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using vfork() -vs fork()
Message-ID: <10420@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Jun 89 04:47:36 GMT
References: <1989Jun19.013230.16107@marob.masa.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Jun19.013230.16107@marob.masa.com> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Can someone provide concrete examples of where I'd want to use vfork(),
>rather than fork()?

Don't use vfork().  It can cause problems for the unwary, it doesn't
exist on non-BSD operating systems, and even Berkeley has threatened
to remove support for it (in which case it will probably become an
alias for fork()).