daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) (06/29/87)
In article <1028@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: >In article <22253@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: [ Basically beating each other up ] MU! A look at the "4.2BSD System Manual, Revised July 1983" by Joy, Cooper, Fabry, Leffler, McKusick and Mosher shows no such beast as a vfork. See Section 2.5, paragraph 1.1. There is a fork and an execve, but no vfork. From this, one may conclude that the 4.2BSD specification makes no mention of vfork, but that the VAX implementation as documented in the man pages does provide the thingy, warts and all. -dB -- {amdahl, cbosgd, mtxinu, ptsfa, sun}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.uucp