[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Wed Jul 28 07:38:43 CDT 2004


On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:27:04AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:43:16PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:46:55PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > - fork() (?)
> > 
> > What the heck?  How can it be unix without fork?
> 
> 
> Presumably they plan to drop fork() but keep vfork().

But, they don't do the same thing.  vfork is meant to be followed
immediately by an exec.



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