What does winopen(3G) do?

[Steve Lamont]

In article <8274 at odin.corp.sgi.com> robert at sgi.com writes:
>by default, winopen does a fork(), creating a running copy of your 
>program, then the original program terminates.
>
>Issue the foreground() call before you do any winopen()'s, if this is
>not what you want.

Pardon my puzzlement, but what are the comparative advantages of forking or
not forking upon winopen()?

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