Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: fork and preallocation (was Re: Paging page tables)
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Date: 23 Jul 90 01:12:11 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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I don't think that M. Ohta is arguing against retaining COW fork, but in favor
of retaining vfork. In the case of multiprocessors, you would want to have
fork-on-other-CPU, exec-on-other-CPU, and vfork. Each has its uses.
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