Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxi!pyuxnn!pyuxmm!cbdkc1!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxa!stevens From: stevens@inuxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: What is vfork()? Message-ID: <230@inuxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 15:44:02 EST Article-I.D.: inuxa.230 Posted: Tue Nov 1 15:44:02 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Nov-83 03:49:08 EST Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 8 How does the (4.n BSD?) vfork() system call differ from the standard vanilla UN*X fork() system call (in terms of what it does to the kernel's data structures)? -- Scott Stevens -- AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories -- Indianapolis, Indiana -- UUCP: inuxa!stevens