On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:47:55 +0100
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote:
the implementation of fork() in linux makes it nearly the same as
vfork().
On 07.03.13 07:53, David F. Skoll wrote:
That is completely wrong. Just because modern forks use copy-on-write
doesn't make them anything at all like vfork; the semantics are utterly
different.
I'm not talking about the semantics but about the implementation. Simply
said, vfork() was developed to avoid process memory copying used at fork().
on linux, fork() does NOT copy process memory.
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