100 lines
3.2 KiB
Groff
100 lines
3.2 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.7 1997/06/30 18:42:51 phil Exp $
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.\" @(#)vfork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 30, 1997
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.Dt VFORK 2
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm vfork
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.Nd spawn new process and block parent
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft pid_t
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.Fn vfork void
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Fn Vfork
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was originally used to create new processes without fully copying the address
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space of the old process, which is horrendously inefficient in a paged
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environment. It was useful when the purpose of
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.Xr fork 2
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would have been to create a new system context for an
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.Xr execve .
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It is the case that
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.Xr fork
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is now efficient, even in the above case, so that the need for
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.Fn vfork
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is diminished.
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.Fn Vfork
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differs from
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.Xr fork
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in that the parent is suspended until the child makes a call to
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.Xr execve 2
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or an exit (either by a call to
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.Xr exit 2
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or abnormally.)
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.Pp
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.Fn Vfork
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returns 0 in the child's context and (later) the pid of the child in
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the parent's context.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr execve 2 ,
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.Xr sigaction 2 ,
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.Xr wait 2 ,
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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Same as for
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.Xr fork .
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.Sh BUGS
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.Pp
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To avoid a possible deadlock situation,
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processes that are children in the middle
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of a
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.Fn vfork
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are never sent
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.Dv SIGTTOU
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or
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.Dv SIGTTIN
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signals; rather,
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output or
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.Xr ioctl 2
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calls
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are allowed
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and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn vfork
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function call appeared in
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.Bx 3.0 .
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