NAME

vfork − spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way

SYNOPSIS

pid = vfork ()
int pid;

DESCRIPTION

vfork has been made synonymous to the fork(2) system service.  This service remains for portability considerations only.  Programs which rely on the memory sharing semantics of vfork will no longer function correctly. 

SEE ALSO

fork(2), execve(2), sigvec(2), wait(2),

DIAGNOSTICS

Same as for fork . 

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