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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C strings
Message-ID: <7454@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 10:12:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.7454
Posted: Tue Jun 23 10:12:08 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 01:18:20 EDT
References: <6480@dartvax.UUCP>, <1142@copper.TEK.COM> <8173@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 14
Summary: pots and kettles

> 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 comments on a manual page.
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