On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:43:08AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > You realize that currently vfork() does not suspend all the threads > in a threaded program, making it difficult to use...
I didn't. That's kind of nifty, but I agree it's not exactly easy to put to constructive use. So the point of this is to avoid fork() in threaded programs, then? That's not the rationale I remember seeing in the past -- I thought it was supposed to improve performance in the general case. Thor
