On 05-Apr-98 Jason Thorpe wrote:

>> I think it's generally significant if there are programs that needed revision
>> to work right with a revised system call.
>
> Not really.  They would work, unless errors occurred, in which case they could
> lose.  Also, the sycall was done in such a way as to make old programs use the
> old vfork.

Well, if errors occur, they aren't working right anyway, are they?

How is the syscall done to make old programs use the old vfork()?


--Jim Howard  <jiho@mail.c-zone.net>
 

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