Re: fork vs. vfork.

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:46:04 +0000


Mike Palczewski wrote:
> So which one is it. Is vfork still an alias for fork or does it
> suspend the parent process.

On current kernels with a current Glibc, vfork suspends the parent
process and shares all memory with its parent until it calls execve().

-- Jamie

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