Re: vfork revisited (was 64bit clean XEmacs)

At the risk of exposing my ignorance, I will ask the basic question that has been bothering my from the times I learned about fork/exec. Why not have an exec-like call which creates a new process (instead of replacing the current one with the new one)? My understanding is that usually exec follows fork and fork is followed by exec - so why not merge the calls? Also, how is vfork different from vork? [linux man says that vfork=fork] Thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.goems.com/~sds) running RedHat5.1 GNU/Linux Micros**t is not the answer. Micros**t is a question, and the answer is Linux, (http://www.linux.org) the choice of the GNU (http://www.gnu.org) generation. Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted.