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Pvfork()

>From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
>I have just recetly learned that vfork() is supposed to block even
>under "real" Unix (if it's available at all).  So there is no real

Indeed you are correct!  I didn't know that either, but APUE does say
that it blocks.  Sigh...I was hoping to avoid the need for kludges
like __fork_and_exit(), by simply using vfork() instead of fork().

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