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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:02:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Grupenhoff <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
To:        Lars Gerhard Kuehl <lars@elbe.desy.de>
Cc:        smpatel@umiacs.UMD.EDU, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changes for vfork()
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.93.960419110034.12218B-100000@snarf.dorm.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9604191322.AA07511@elbe.desy.de>

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On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Lars Gerhard Kuehl wrote:

> I'd prefer somthing like a pid_t newfork(int suspend_parent),

You already have it:

#define fork() rfork(RFPROC|RFFDG)
#define vfork() rfork(RFPROC|RFFDG|RFPPWAIT)

The RFPPWAIT flag is equivalent to your suspend_parent argument.

mike




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