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Ben Gamari authored
`vfork` is something of a relic, originally introduced as a (rather unsafe) optimisation of `fork` in 3.0BSD, allowing the user to eliminate the cost of cloning the parent process's address space (as early BSDs would do) when `fork`ing with the intent of immediately `exec`ing. However, its design has long been considered a mistake (being nigh impossible to use safely in a multithreaded environment), its benefits have largely vanished (since modern operating systems rely on virtual memory to remap the parent's address space as copy-on-write instead of copying), and nearly all platforms now consider it to be an alias of `fork`. Remove `process`'s support for `vfork`. Fixes #261.
Ben Gamari authored`vfork` is something of a relic, originally introduced as a (rather unsafe) optimisation of `fork` in 3.0BSD, allowing the user to eliminate the cost of cloning the parent process's address space (as early BSDs would do) when `fork`ing with the intent of immediately `exec`ing. However, its design has long been considered a mistake (being nigh impossible to use safely in a multithreaded environment), its benefits have largely vanished (since modern operating systems rely on virtual memory to remap the parent's address space as copy-on-write instead of copying), and nearly all platforms now consider it to be an alias of `fork`. Remove `process`'s support for `vfork`. Fixes #261.
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