ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (06/23/87)
> If vfork is much faster (as opposed to slightly faster) than fork, it is > time to complain to the supplier of your Unix. . .Even Berkeley *intended* > to fix this, as witness the comments on the vfork manual page. Sensible > vendors have long since implemented copy-on-write fork. . . Let's go easy on the folks at Berkeley. Many programmers fail to deliver on their announced intentions--even when the intentions have been announced before large audiences at Usenix conferences (the 1987 Washington D.C. conference leaps to mind), not just in comments on a manual page. -- UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. -- UUCP: ..seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.CSS.GOV Elsie and Ado are trademarks of Borden, Inc. and Ampex.