| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2000 at 18:24:49 |
| Subject: | fork() (Was: Re: AMIOPEN: ave_open()) |
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:50:14AM -0700, Patrick Roberts wrote:
> Just to add to your description of what fork() does, and one of the main
> reasons I use fork() is that the child and parent process share memory until
> one does a write, then only the page that the process writes to is copied and
> tracked. This is great for anything wanting to take advantage of multi-proc
> set-ups as the performance increase is much faster than using threads. At
> least this is how it works in Linux and IRIX.
:-/ How about using mmap() for this ?