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- Submitted-by: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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- In article <17402@cs.utexas.edu> michael@CS.UCLA.EDU (michael gersten) writes:
- >So its a call that is at least, if not more, efficient on a larger
- >variety of hardware platforms.
- >Now, why was it removed? What is wrong with it?
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- Why have it at *all*? If it is functionally equivalent to fork(), why in
- k&r's name add another call that does exactly the same thing?
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