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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:44:08 -0400
From: "david bulkow" <dbulkow@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] APE fork()
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On 8/12/06, Victor Nazarov <vir@comtv.ru> wrote:
> POSIX-fork() copies data and bss segmets, child process doesn't share
> data with it's parent.

vfork() causes both child and parent to share address space.  I
believe this was introduced to make the fork/exec sequence faster as
the address space COW didn't need to be setup.