>  > If we are to have vfork there should some comments about its problems
>  > and maybe a note in the man pages BUGS section suggesting the
>  > implmentation of forkexec().
> 
> I don't think so, no... for a few reasons:
> 
> 	(1) No other UNIX-like system has that.
> 
> 	(2) vfork(2) is actually documented in a standard now.
> 
> 	(3) vfork(2) is an "expected" interface for this sort of thing.
> 
> 	(4) It makes decoding the error in the parent slightly more
> 	    difficult.

	(5) General handling of forkexec() would require quite a complicated
	    interface.  Think about file handling (esp. pipes), signal
	    handling etc.
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