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Re: __vfork14()
On 1233539464 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
matthew green wrote:
>
> -- 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 :-)
We eventually got it right. It is the default in /bin/sh. It makes
simple shell scripts a lot faster if the programs executed don't do
much work, .e.g. /bin/[, /bin/echo, etc.
The code has to be conditionally compiled to know whether vfork(2) has
shared address space or COW semantics for various reasons.
--
Roland Dowdeswell http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/
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