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Clarify HISTORY and bump date.

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dholland 2014-07-18 15:58:51 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.25 2014/07/18 15:56:44 dholland Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.26 2014/07/18 15:58:51 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)vfork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
.Dd January 3, 1998
.Dd July 18, 2014
.Dt VFORK 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -113,13 +113,11 @@ function call appeared in
.Bx 3.0 .
In
.Bx 4.4 ,
the semantics were changed to only suspend the parent.
the semantics were changed to only suspend the parent and not share
the address space.
The original semantics were reintroduced in
.Nx 1.4 .
.Sh BUGS
.\" XXX We reintroduced the original semantics.
.\" This system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing
.\" mechanisms are implemented.
Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of
.Fn vfork
as other ways of speeding up the fork process may be developed in