At 05:51 PM 3/16/98 , Jason Thorpe wrote:
>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.

This is a generic interface and I don't know what else will be using
it eventually.  I designed it for maximum flexibility.  If nothing 
uses all of it that's fine.  
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