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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system Date: 2 Mar 1994 18:42:23 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2l2mmf$me9@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <CLutBp.4K9@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <a09878.762550221@giant> <2l0b06$2qi@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <2l1ov4$m7o@germany.eu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <2l1ov4$m7o@germany.eu.net>, Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net> wrote: >|> vfork() isn't POSIX. But then, neither is memory overcommit. > >Hmm. Is that socket() stuff POSIX ? Nope. Will be soon, though. In all seriousness, a POSIX-compliant operating system MUST NOT require programs to call non-POSIX functions in order to operate correctly according to the standard. Therefore, vfork() isn't a solution to the problem of `60-Mb process forks in order to exec /bin/true'. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. formerly known as | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people wollman@emba.uvm.edu | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant