richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (03/09/89)
Is there any reason to use vfork() under 4.0? Isn't fork just as efficient now that copy-on-write is implemented? I see that the manual page still says "this system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing mechanisms are implemented". Is this just an anachronism, or a subtle attack on the 4.0 implementation? -- Richard