On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:44:27 -0500 
 Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:

 > >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.

does the application have control over all of this?  if not, then you
can't have the kernel dictating the semantics wrt. vfork.

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