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- Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
-
- In article <16213@cs.utexas.edu> jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes:
- >I think that loosens the restriction too much. The intent of the text, I
- >believe, is that *doing* anything between qfork() and exec*() results in
- >undefined behavior. Checking a variable doesn't *do* anything in this sense.
- >The text tries to sidestep the issue of "is qfork() a 4.2BSD-style
- >share-memory pseudo-fork or is it a real fork or what?"
-
- We (IEEE P1003) deliberately omitted vfork() from the POSIX spec
- because it was not necessary, given a decent implementation of fork().
- Why is this notion being reintroduced (quite carelessly so far as I can
- tell from the quotes so far) for 1003.1a?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 66
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