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Re: AmigaOS fork()
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: AmigaOS fork() |
Date: |
23 May 2001 17:23:28 -0700 |
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Rüdiger Kuhlmann <address@hidden> writes:
> Since we've autoconf 2.50 now, maybe it's time to come up with some
> not-so-important issues. The problem at hand is that under AmigaOS, the
> fork() function always returns EONOSYS (IIRC), in other words, there is
> no spoon(), due to limitations that can't seriously be
> overcome. However, there is a fairly well vfork(), that very often can
> be used instead.
vfork() is normally a very different function than fork(), with
significantly different and much more dangerous behavior if it is not
immediately followed by an exec(). Is that the case on Amiga, or is it
just a misnamed fork()?
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- AmigaOS fork(), Rüdiger Kuhlmann, 2001/05/23
- Re: AmigaOS fork(),
Russ Allbery <=
- Re: AmigaOS fork(), Tim Van Holder, 2001/05/24
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Rüdiger Kuhlmann, 2001/05/24
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Peter Eisentraut, 2001/05/24
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Russ Allbery, 2001/05/24
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Rüdiger Kuhlmann, 2001/05/27
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Rüdiger Kuhlmann, 2001/05/31
- Re: AmigaOS fork(), Lars Hecking, 2001/05/31
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Akim Demaille, 2001/05/31
- Re: [autoconf] AmigaOS fork(), Rüdiger Kuhlmann, 2001/05/31