Georg Nikodym <georgn(a)Canada.Sun.COM> writes:
  JV> Of course this is only a problem if you like Solaris
don't COW
 
 Once again, whether the pages are COWed or not is irrelevant.  (See my
 response to Per) 
You stripped the 'overcommit' part of the quote. Unlike some other
mainstream Unixen Solaris does not overcommit. On others fork simply
always succeeds. And yes this introduces another failure mode as you
told Per. However it is there anyway (and there are good reasons for
it)
Jan