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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/cygwin/how-vfork-works.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/how-vfork-works.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/how-vfork-works.txt b/winsup/cygwin/how-vfork-works.txt index c45228cad..7148366db 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/how-vfork-works.txt +++ b/winsup/cygwin/how-vfork-works.txt @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ the result of a vfork and closes the extra file handles. This all relies on the fact that the child in a vfork call can affect just about everything in the parent except for the parent's fds. -The assumption is that you don't return from the call that invoked the -vfork. +The assumption is that a vfork is always just used as a method for
+starting a program.
The assumption is also that all of this is much faster than the slow method that cygwin uses to implement fork(). |