[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:38:43AM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, which is why I noted 30 seconds later that it wouldn't make sense
either.  Plus, the parent is suspended until the vfork() exits.


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