Thor Lancelot Simon writes:

>vfork() was put back into NetBSD for a reason: it wins.

By enough a margin to keep that inelegant crude hack in the API?
I mean, it was a workaround for a CPU bug -- the disability of
COW on a certain VAX CPU due to microcode errors, not a great
achievement in itself!  I'm quite amazed that it went back in,
when some people earlier already had the foresight to eliminate
such crude (and by now most likely unnecessary) workarounds.

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  Matthias Buelow;  mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}