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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Fork and Join, Pipe in C
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 23:29:11 EDT
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> Try the built-in command "hashstat" in csh.  It's to be used mostly for
> debugging, I assume, as it tells you how well the exec hash table is working.
> The way it counts a "miss" is by incrementing a variable everytime a exec
> fails.  It has to do this in the child, and thus uses the vfork "shared
> memory".

It could also do this with a shared file; abusing "vfork"s shared memory
may have been convenient, but it wasn't necessary.
	Guy Harris
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