| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2000 at 17:54:04 |
| Subject: | Re: fork() (Was: Re: AMIOPEN: ave_open()) |
Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote:
>
> All I have to add to this is:
>
> The function which I created (ixemul_exec()) can do everything that
> is necessary to emulate fork()/exec(), so I see no reason to try to
> implement fork() or vfork().
>
Resource sharing. The parent and child processes all share the same physical
memory for data until one does a write. (At least under Linux and IRIX)
-Pat
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