christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> The benefit is that you get an consistent behavior instead of going ahead
> with an operation that may or may not work, depending on the phase of the
> moon.

Okay, that's worth something. I still think that an application or
library that wants to run on more than one system is mad to use
vfork(); we use it internally for system() and popen() but the
rationale for exposing it is weak [but buried in history now].

        - Nathan