Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: fork, spawn, vfork: an overview Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 16:33:09 GMT References: <25904@mimsy.umd.edu> <12382@encore.Encore.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 6 In article <12382@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes: > The one issue you haven't dealt with is the case where a program wants > to spawn many copies of itself but never execs after the fork. In this case vfork() isn't even usable. Doesn't matter if you're on a Butterfly or not. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`