So which one is it. Is vfork still an alias for fork or does it suspend
the parent
process.
| David Helder wrote:
| > vfork() differs from fork in that the parent is suspended
| > until the child makes a call to execve(2) or _exit(2).
| > The child shares all memory with its parent, including the
| > stack, until execve() is issued by the child. The child
| > must not return from the current function or call exit(),
| > but may call _exit().
|
| I must be using a diffrent man page.
|
| Under Linux, fork is implemented using copy-on-write
| pages, so the only penalty incurred by fork is the time
| and memory required to duplicate the parent's page tables,
| and to create a unique task structure for the child.
|
| Under Linux, vfork is merely an alias for fork."
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