On Sat, Jan 19, 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: Creating a spawn system call":
> 1. have you ever heard of vfork()? This was a 3.0BSD invention, that was
> similar to fork except that it wouldn't copy any memory, and the only
> thing you're allowed to do after a vfork() is an exec() (or _exit()).
> vfork was since then somewhat deprecated: 4.4BSD made it the same thing
> as fork(), and Solaris marks it as "This function will be eliminated in a
By the way, you might want to take a look at
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/vfork.html
Which explains why netbsd reinstated the vfork() system call.
Note, however, that their conclusion is that "It shaves several seconds off a
build of libc" - hardly impressive... I can't see how your spawn
implementation will gain much more than that.
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