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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fork and Join, Pipe in C
Message-ID: <819@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 23:00:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 23:00:02 1987
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In article <1186@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>, edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
> If the child processes that you are forking don't use much of the
> code that the parent usings, I sugguest you use vfork and execl to
> spawn processes.  [vfork is faster but borrows the parent's address
> space in an unclean way.]

Unfortunately, doing vfork/exec also requires that you split your
program up into multiple (binary) files and somehow teach one of them
(the parent) how to compute a path pointing to the part to be executed
by the child.

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)