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.
I always thought vfork was introduced because copy-on-write hadn't been invented yet. It's the only logical explanation. Russ
