In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/12/2008
at 01:55 PM, Wayne Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>My guess as to why the OC is used is because fork will use a Copy on
>Write (COW) protocol for the new address space. They run through the JPA
>and do an OC on each page in order to get the modules copied over.
Doesn't that defeat one of the reasons for copy on write?
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