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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: qfork() (The Spawn of spawn())
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Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

( Guido lists a couple of systems where a function with spawn() type
  semantics (create a new process and load a program)... )

Also, most DEC operating systems use this sort of call for process creation.
AmigaOS does things in the opposite order: you load a segment and then use
CreateProc to start executing it.
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