On 04/29, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Linux vfork() is very much a real vfork(). What do you mean? Yes, but I am wondering if man vfork should clarify what "child terminates" actually means. I mean, the child can do clone(CLONE_THREAD) + sys_exit(), this will wake the parent thread up before the child process exits or execs. I see nothing wrong, but I was always curious whether it was designed this way on purpose or not. Oleg.