david bulkow wrote:

On 8/12/06, Victor Nazarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

POSIX-fork() copies data and bss segmets, child process doesn't share
data with it's parent.


vfork() causes both child and parent to share address space.  I
believe this was introduced to make the fork/exec sequence faster as
the address space COW didn't need to be setup.

I think, it's BSD specific.
--
Victor

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