Also I don't think it is unfortunate (or a bug) that vfork() continues to exist in Linux aside from the fact that the semantics differ from other *nixes in subtle and potentially confusing ways. As implemented in Linux vfork() is quite useful and with the aforementioned clarifications to the documentation, worth retaining. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html