svn commit: r199570 - stable/6/lib/libc/sys
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 20 07:05:38 UTC 2009
Author: brueffer
Date: Fri Nov 20 07:05:38 2009
New Revision: 199570
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199570
Log:
MFC: r199255, r199257
Improved the manpage description. The committed wording
was provided by jhb.
Remove a note about vfork(4) going to be eliminated, it's here to stay.
Modified:
stable/6/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
Directory Properties:
stable/6/lib/libc/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/6/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
==============================================================================
--- stable/6/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2 Fri Nov 20 07:00:40 2009 (r199569)
+++ stable/6/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2 Fri Nov 20 07:05:38 2009 (r199570)
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@
.\" @(#)vfork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd November 13, 2009
.Dt VFORK 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vfork
-.Nd spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way
+.Nd create a new process without copying the address space
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
@@ -117,14 +117,6 @@ The
system call appeared in
.Bx 2.9 .
.Sh BUGS
-This system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing
-mechanisms are implemented.
-Users should not depend on the memory
-sharing semantics of
-.Fn vfork
-as it will, in that case, be made synonymous to
-.Xr fork 2 .
-.Pp
To avoid a possible deadlock situation,
processes that are children in the middle
of a
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