Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries!mcdonald From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: fork, spawn, vfork: an overview Message-ID: <1990Aug8.133546.27806@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 90 13:35:46 GMT References: <25904@mimsy.umd.edu> <12382@encore.Encore.COM> <1940@charon.cwi.nl> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Organization: School of Chemical Sciences, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 9 In article <1940@charon.cwi.nl> jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes: >A reasonably clean solution to the vfork() PLEASE folks, this is not a computer architecture issue. It is a question that has to do with the software of one very particular operating system. Let's move it appropriate os-specific group? OK. Most OS's don;t seem to have any such weird difficulties. Doug MCDonald