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Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> --On 2005-4-22 3:02 PM -0700 David Leimbach <dleimbac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> According to the man page, and plan 9 where rfork originated you can
>> use it to modify an extant process.  In fact you have to set the
>> RFPROC flag to make a new process or all the changes apply to the
>> current one.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately the semantics of FreeBSD rfork() have diverted far enough 
> from the original plan9 rfork() such that you can't consider it as the 
> same call. This makes life miserable for things like running Inferno on 
> FreeBSD.

patches to fix this would probably be accepted.. as long as other functionality 
wask kept 'available'

> 
> --lyndon
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