------- Additional Comments From schwab at suse dot de  2004-10-15 09:32 -------
> - vfork() is deprecated -- it was a BSD kludge from old no-MMU-days (a 
> politically-correct reason :-). 
 
Use of vfork is still a win if you are going to call execve anyway because the 
address space does not need to be copied. 
 
> - At least in Linux, vfork()s can't be followed by strace/ltrace, which makes 
> debugging obscure situations MUCH harder. 
 
This is wrong.  At least strace has no problem following vfork. 

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18006

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