Is System V.4 fork reliable?

[stephen.a.rago]

In article <480 at amanue.UUCP>, jr at amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
> In <32 at kings.co.uk> lls at kings.co.uk (Lady Lodge Systems) writes:
> 
> >In article <561 at oglvee.UUCP> jr at oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
> >>Somewhere along in the development of System V, fork became an unreliable
> >>system call....
> 
> >>My question is:  Is this *FIXED* in V.4?
> 
> Which, alas, no one has answered.  Surely *somebody* reading this group can
> look at the V.4 source and let us know.  To repeat:  do any kernel routines
> called as result of a fork issue kmem_alloc() with the flag KM_NOSLEEP?

Yes.