qfork() (again)

[Sean Eric Fagan]

Submitted-by: sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)

In article <17402 at cs.utexas.edu> michael at CS.UCLA.EDU (michael gersten) writes:
>So its a call that is at least, if not more, efficient on a larger
>variety of hardware platforms.
>Now, why was it removed? What is wrong with it?

Why have it at *all*?  If it is functionally equivalent to fork(), why in
k&r's name add another call that does exactly the same thing?

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