Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork()

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:42:47PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:07:55 +0200
> > This leads to four(!) different cases:
> > [...]
> >  * fork(), that should be a fork() if possible, but if not available,
> >    a vfork() should do the job as well
> 
> I don't see why this case would ever happen in real code.

Something which you'd prefer to have happen in parallel if
possible, but if it's not possible, then sequential is ok.
"Make" firing off a bunch of compilations, for example.

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