vfork() (was Re: RS6000 questions/comments)

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Mon Jul 1 03:53:34 AEST 1991


In article <DERAADT.91Jun30030305 at fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> deraadt at cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>I suggest those who say that vfork() is not needed anymore try this test
>on their machine.

vfork()       1m8.09s real       0m30.38s user   0m35.55s sys    147 vfork/sec
 fork()       1m7.51s real       0m29.15s user   0m35.57s sys    148  fork/sec

Yep, I can see what a win vfork() is.

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