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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help with INND; Cant Realloc memory?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 10:02:16 GMT
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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In article <4f3mnm$6ab@olympus.nwnet.net>, Anthony D'Atri wrote:
>Is there some reason to use fork() instead of vfork()?

If I recall right someone posted some days ago that vfork() on BSDi still 
needs memory like it would have been fork()

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Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhhuhn.de
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