On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:24:47 -0500 (EST) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > Is there any reason sh could be "fixed" to use vfork()?  Considering the
 > enormous number of scripts out there that use sh, this could be a big
 > performance gain. 

This would be an interesting project, I think, yes.

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