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Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] APE fork()
From: "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:09:12 +0200
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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.

That's it. Thanks for clarify things.