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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:31:31 +0100 (CET)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@free.fr>
To:        setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        Andrey Pugachev <A110C@svs.ru>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?
Message-ID:  <20011127182404.F2369-100000@gerard>
In-Reply-To: <20011127190515.GA15358@rhadamanth>

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, setantae wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:17PM -0000, Andrey Pugachev wrote:
> > I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-w=
rite?
>
> As far as I am aware, the BSD family of operating systems have always
> used copy-on-write (at least since 4.3BSD).

My awareness is different and tells me that 4.3BSD had just vfork() but
not COW yet, while System V had it years before. Sorry if I am wrong.

  G=E9rard.


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