Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Porting vfork() | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:18:29 -0800 (PST) |
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> > > > 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. >
Well, people do also hate it because it has traditionally been (ab)used in ways which are explicitly said to be implementation-defined.
-hpa
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