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SubjectRe: Porting vfork()
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Followup to:  <19990105154611.A16497@draper.net>
By author: kernel@draper.net
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> So, the question: is linux vfork() behavior annoying anyone else and is it
> worth fixing? (other than to eliminate its appearance in the BUG area of the
> Linux fork() man page ;)
>

I think you can mimic the BSD vfork() at the library level by using
clone() and perhaps trapping exec().

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