------- 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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