Re: fork vs. vfork.

Matthew Wilcox (willy@thepuffingroup.com)
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:52:38 -0500

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:01:30PM +0000, Mike Palczewski wrote:
> So which one is it. Is vfork still an alias for fork or does it suspend
> the parent process.

This behaviour changed around Linux 2.1.120 or so. Linus noticed it was
now easy to add, so he did.

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