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It may not be deprecated, but it's a rather unsafe interface: http://ewontfix.com/7/ http://ewontfix.com/7/
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
It may not be deprecated, but it's a rather unsafe interface: http://ewontfix.com/7/ http://ewontfix.com/7/
- quotemstr 12y agoIt's possible to use safely, and the benefits are worth it --- no commit charge problems and no time spent copying page tables. (Even in the memory itself is copy-on-write, you still have to set up the child's address space.) I'm sick of people cargo-culting ideas like "vfork is bad" without really understanding the issues.