RS6000 questions/comments

[Nick Dokos]

In article <1991Jun27.221208.14845 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

   In article <141 at ssi.UUCP> cjr at ssi.UUCP (Cris J. Rhea) writes:
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   >* The rs6k like the u370 (that's the 3090) has no vfork().

   vfork() is a hack, although, I will admit, it does have its uses.  The only
   legitimate use of vfork() is that the child will execute before the parent.
   However, POSIX does not (yet?) have a vfork() like function; IBM may be
   waiting for POSIX to decide what to do before they add one.  (POSIX did
   have, last time I checked a draft, a proposal for a 'qfork()' which was
   almost-but-not-quite vfork().  So be it.)
...

The original assertion that the rs6k has no vfork is false:
vfork() is provided in the BSD compatibility library /lib/libbsd.a 

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