Re: Re: Shelling?

From: Daniel Koepke (dkoepke@california.com)
Date: 01/17/97


On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, JTRhone wrote:

>   btw, for those who were payin close attention, yeah i did fork twice
> so yer thinkin there may be 3 copies floatin around... but the second fork
> is a vfork() and is more efficient than regular fork() so it doesnt count
> :P

Under Linux, vfork() is an alias for fork().  Dunno about other
systems.


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Daniel Koepke
dkoepke@california.com
Forgive me father, for I am sin.


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