Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!tgould!awm From: awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX (UNIX clone) now available for 68000 (Atari-ST) Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 88 16:42:09 GMT References: <1581@ast.cs.vu.nl> <17339@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <15@myth.UUCP> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 17 In-reply-to: wes@myth.UUCP's message of 10 Nov 88 04:11:14 GMT >Of course, >this limitation does not apply if the parent or child does an exec >following the fork - the original data and text segments are freed, >and new ones allocated. Does (ST-)Minix have "vfork"? That would sure save on copying data segments around (in the typical case when the child immediately exec's). Would it be difficult to add (I haven't got a copy of Minix [yet] to try these things out)? Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ