Re: suggestion for improvement to vfork() man page

On Wednesday 18 January 2012 22:16:28 starlight-Utvwg/EOxnhfq8cQ1yknNg@public.gmane.org wrote:

Also I don't think it is unfortunate (or a bug)
that vfork() continues to exist in Linux aside
from the fact that the semantics differ from
other *nixes in subtle and potentially
confusing ways.

As implemented in Linux vfork() is quite useful
and with the aforementioned clarifications to
the documentation, worth retaining.

it also most likely won't ever be going away.  a few reasons:
	- vfork() is really just a clone() with certain flags
	- clone() is never going away as it is used to create threads
	- vfork() is required for no-mmu systems (can't implement fork())
-mike