Re: [Nmh-workers] vfork()

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:01:44 PST, Lyndon Nerenberg said:

> Will replacing vfork() with fork() seriously impact nmh performance on
> any current UNIX variants?  (How many VAX users do we still have?)

fork() should be almost as cheap as vfork() on any system that has a
sane memory manager that does copy on write of the memory.

The linux manpage says there's a few slight differences between vfork()
and fork(), but nothing that should bother nmh.

We don't do any vfork() without an immediately following exec*() call, do we?

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