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From: peter@ficc.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: QNX
Keywords: QNX, real time unix
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Date: 12 Jun 89 07:43:50 GMT
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I was also under the impression that QNX does NOT implement the fork()
system call. This is just fine for realtime work (fork() is a pig), but
it's not adequate in a development environment where you're going to want
to run your favorite UNIX tools.

I could go into why fork() is a lossage for non-VM systems, and how it's
cool for VM, and so on... but I won't.
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