Den 19-Mar-00 03:54:17 skrev Jesse Pollard fĝlgende om "Re: Overcommitable memory??":
> vfork is one way to do this. It has been rejected, parially I believe,
> because it didn't get included in various standards - vfork itself is a BSD
> base, and I haven't seen it in anything else. For most purposes, fork is
> equivalent. The other reason is that most applications do not implement/use
> vfork since it wasn't part of the majority of UNIX versions. This made
> portability of vfork an issue with applications. Since fork accomplished the
> same thing, it was used.
GNU AutoConf deals with it easily, just as it does with a number of
other portability issues.
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