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.

-- 
gil

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