Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:06:07 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Porting vfork() |
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 kernel@draper.net wrote: > > I suppose that a performance enhancement that also transforms an abomination > into a feature makes sense... not to mention that it will feel great to > see the other UNIXes scramble to do the same.
Note that vfork() is only an abomination because it can be hard to get right - and we don't have that problem any longer. Basically everybody hates it not because it's an ugly interface, but because it's so hard to implement. And that's a big conceptual difference.
Linus
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