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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: fork/vfork in linux
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-12-09 7:20:51
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
> 
> > fork() on linux already implements copy on write anyway, so it achieves
> > what you are talking about.
> 
> Sure, but something like rfork would be much more flexible anyways.
> Bashing vfork is rather useless, since clone is equally as flawed.  It's a
> waste of a web server to randomly rant about vfork, when they've got no
> decent alternative (fork notwithstanding).

It's no rant, it's just a brief summary of what happens between the ranks
trying to actually fix the thing :-)

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