fork()

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2019 Nov 5 5:17
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2023 Oct 24 12:32
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vfork()

A lot of duplicated information

Copy-On-Write mechanism, waste and inefficient design.
Allow both the parent and the child to read (but not write!) the same physical pages.
Whenever either one tries to write on a physical page, the kernel copies new
 
implemented by
clone()
 
 
 
 
 
 

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