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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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- In article <16992@cs.utexas.edu> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >In article <16875@cs.utexas.edu> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- >> We (IEEE P1003) deliberately omitted vfork() from the POSIX spec
- >> because it was not necessary, given a decent implementation of fork().
- >POSIX is not supposed to be a standard for UNIX only. In many non-UNIX
- >environments a "decent implementation of fork" is quite difficult ...
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- Excuse me, but you're quite wrong. P1003 decided deliberately that we
- (I was there) would not compromise the (1003.1) interface in order to
- accommodate "layered" implementations, for example on non-UNIX based
- operating system kernels.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 73
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