From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 16 16:19:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA25440 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:19:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA25431 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (dialin1.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.254.101]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id RAA17739 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:19:40 -0700 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:19:07 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Is fork() copy-on-write ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was curious to know when a process is forked, are the new vm pages which are created copy-on-write? [I know, I know I should just go look at the source code, but I haven't quite got up the nerve to start looking at that area. It is sort of like peering over a cliff into an infinite abyss.] -- Charles Mott