vfork implementation

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Jul 27 18:32:00 GMT 1999


--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> In benchmarks, this vfork is *at least* twice as fast as a normal fork.
> 

This is worth including it in the next release.

> So what do you think?  Is this good enough to go into the mythical next
> net release (B21)?  Should I make it a cygwin option, i.e.
> CYGWIN=fastvfork?

Not worth doing, the code I've seen that contains vfork always checks to see if
it's available.  If you don't want it just undefine the HAVE_VFORK or what ever
macro.

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