From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 22 11:19:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00350 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00343; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id NAA02417; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:18:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Dyson Message-Id: <199704221818.NAA02417@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Recent vfork kernel changes broke csh & tcsh! In-Reply-To: from "[______ ______]" at "Apr 22, 97 09:27:08 pm" To: ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:18:23 -0500 (EST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Can we left vfork at traditional BSD stage and not make it > as powerful as rfork is? It seems some programs expect traditional > semantics... > The problem is that the new vfork re-implemented the traditional BSD method... Too much code appears to be broken. John