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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX fork
Message-ID: <976@winchester.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 20:57:04 EST
Article-I.D.: winchest.976
Posted: Mon Nov 23 20:57:04 1987
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In article <909@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
...
>code depending on the sharing semantics will break when someone finally
>fixes fork() to do a proper copy-on-write fork, 

Many UNIXes, including SVR3 already do copy-on-write forks.
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