> On 8/12/06, Victor Nazarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
