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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Unix on the Amiga
Message-ID: <8805092040.AA17873@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 May 88 20:40:21 GMT
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>>In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) replied:
>>> 	I never liked fork() anyway.  It is cute conceptually but not very
>>> powerful.... more like wastefull.
>99 percent of all forks could be vforks instead.  Vfork is better

	Yah, I use vfork() all the time.  It's a hack.  My opinion stands,
but perhaps I should reword it:

	"Having used UNIX systems extensively, I have never liked the way
child processes are spun off with fork()/vfork().  The method is
cute conceptually, but not very powerful... more like wastefull 
(even vfork())."

	Note that my main point is that the calls are not very powerful.

					-Matt