Using vfork() -vs fork()

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1989Jun19.013230.16107 at marob.masa.com> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Can someone provide concrete examples of where I'd want to use vfork(),
>rather than fork()?

Don't use vfork().  It can cause problems for the unwary, it doesn't
exist on non-BSD operating systems, and even Berkeley has threatened
to remove support for it (in which case it will probably become an
alias for fork()).