On Jan 7, 10:38pm, gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost (Greg Troxel) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Should we use _malloc_prefork and _malloc_postfork? | Can you elaborate on what FreeBSD fork does? You can look at the source here: http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src-freebsd/lib/libthr/thread/thr_fork.c christos