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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] authorization schemes (was CORBA)
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2001 09:49:55 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> vfork()?  was the v for vomit?

According to some of the Berkeleyites, there was a flaw in
the VAX-11/750 memory management unit (microcode?) such
that they were unable to use copy-on-write.  When I
mentioned this to the AT&T UNIX System V developers, they
said it seemed to work fine for them..