Re: __vfork14()

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <5393.1233539464%splode.eterna.com.au@localhost>,
matthew green  <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>   
>     -- was this an optimization, with code working pretty much as before,
>        but gaining speed from not doing a bunch of unneeded Copy-on-Write
>        setup?
>
>it was clearly an optimisation.  i'm sure this or some other
>list has benchmark results for this, back from then.
>   
>     -- are there programs in-tree which depend on the shared address space
>        semantics?
>
>one hopes not :-)  infact, /bin/sh does not use it currently
>because of this.  see the several attempts to fix it that have
>been backed out :-)

Actually it does use it.

christos