On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:01:44 PST, Lyndon Nerenberg said: > Will replacing vfork() with fork() seriously impact nmh performance on > any current UNIX variants? (How many VAX users do we still have?)
fork() should be almost as cheap as vfork() on any system that has a sane memory manager that does copy on write of the memory. The linux manpage says there's a few slight differences between vfork() and fork(), but nothing that should bother nmh. We don't do any vfork() without an immediately following exec*() call, do we?
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