On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:31:31PM +0100, G�rard Roudier wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, setantae wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:17PM -0000, Andrey Pugachev wrote: > > > I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write? > > > > As far as I am aware, the BSD family of operating systems have always > > used copy-on-write (at least since 4.3BSD). > > My awareness is different and tells me that 4.3BSD had just vfork() but > not COW yet, while System V had it years before. Sorry if I am wrong.
You're not. My bad. At home now, and checking my daemon book I see SystemV, Release 2 got it in 1984, and it was introduced in 4.4BSD in 1993. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
