On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:45:14 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >Gil wrote, in part: >> Shame om IBM. They implemented vfork on CMS Opem, but >>fraudlently named it "fork". > >Yeah, when the did that, at the next SHARE I handed out Taco Bell sporks with >labels that said "VM OpenEdition fork". Even the IBMers seemed to think it was >funny. > They could have been ethical: <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/posix_spawn.html#tag_17_388> o Swapping is generally too slow for a realtime environment. o Dynamic address translation is not available everywhere that POSIX might be useful. o Processes are too useful to simply option out of POSIX whenever it must run without address translation or other MMU services.
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