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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fork and Join, Pipe in C
Message-ID: <7452@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 10:09:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.7452
Posted: Tue Jun 23 10:09:42 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 01:17:43 EDT
References: <7737@brl-adm.ARPA>, <1186@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> <8174@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Summary: pots and kettles

In article <8174@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> If vfork is much faster (as opposed to slightly faster) than fork, it is
> time to complain to the supplier of your Unix. . .Even Berkeley *intended*
> to fix this, as witness the comments on the vfork manual page.  Sensible
> vendors have long since implemented copy-on-write fork. . .

Let's go easy on the folks at Berkeley.  Many programmers fail to deliver on
their announced intentions--even when the intentions have been announced before
large audiences at Usenix conferences (the 1987 Washington D.C. conference
leaps to mind), not just in manual page comments.
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