Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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MT programming just got easier. (vfork)

At least on Solaris. So far. Of course, in the UNIX world good API’s tend to get migrate into other implementations, so I hope Linux hackers will take note.

6497356 fork extensions (PSARC 2006/659)

The vfork call in UNIX has always been a serious issue when you’re using threads, and the posix_spawn API did a [...]