Re: fork ???
- From: Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>
- To: Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>
- Cc: Magnus Wirström <asd mail bip net>,gnome-devel-list <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: fork ???
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT)
> -> You probably don't want to do a full fork as it takes a lot of system
> -> resources most of which you don't need. Use a vfork and then have teh
> -> child execute a execve system call.
>
> From the fork() man page:
>
> [...]
> Under Linux, vfork is merely an alias for fork.
> [...]
Oh yeah..I remember that! I guess if your programming for Linux it
doesn't matter. :-)
sri
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