What is vfork()?

stevens at inuxa.UUCP stevens at inuxa.UUCP
Wed Nov 2 06:44:02 AEST 1983


How does the (4.n BSD?) vfork() system call differ from the standard
vanilla UN*X fork() system call (in terms of what it does to the kernel's
data structures)?

-- Scott Stevens
-- AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories
-- Indianapolis, Indiana
-- UUCP: inuxa!stevens



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