At 02:01 PM 3/16/98 , Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:22:27 -0500 
> Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:
>
> > > > #define PEXT_FORK	1
> > > > #define PEXT_VFORK	2
> > >
> > >Why are fork and vfork treated differently?
> > 
> > No reason.  If I hadn't had both, someone would have asked
> > why are they treated the same.
>
>Ah... perhaps it should just be "newproc"?

One reason I can see for not being the same is that you may not
decide to inherit if it's VFORK and you will close-on-exec
anyway.
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