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[src/trunk]: src/lib/libc/sys Clarify HISTORY and bump date.



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/c70a313224fd
branches:  trunk
changeset: 330697:c70a313224fd
user:      dholland <dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Fri Jul 18 15:58:51 2014 +0000

description:
Clarify HISTORY and bump date.

diffstat:

 lib/libc/sys/vfork.2 |  10 ++++------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diffs (34 lines):

diff -r b9b7e7fea73e -r c70a313224fd lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
--- a/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2      Fri Jul 18 15:56:44 2014 +0000
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2      Fri Jul 18 15:58:51 2014 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.25 2014/07/18 15:56:44 dholland Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.26 2014/07/18 15:58:51 dholland Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)vfork.2    8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\"
-.Dd January 3, 1998
+.Dd July 18, 2014
 .Dt VFORK 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -113,13 +113,11 @@
 .Bx 3.0 .
 In
 .Bx 4.4 ,
-the semantics were changed to only suspend the parent.
+the semantics were changed to only suspend the parent and not share
+the address space.
 The original semantics were reintroduced in
 .Nx 1.4 .
 .Sh BUGS
-.\" XXX We reintroduced the original semantics.
-.\" This system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing
-.\" mechanisms are implemented.
 Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of
 .Fn vfork
 as other ways of speeding up the fork process may be developed in



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