fork and vfork status

Aleksey Demakov a.demakov at pengutronix.de
Mon Mar 17 14:44:58 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Denys Vlasenko
<vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  > Is there any activity or perhaps available patches to resolve
>  > the cases that do fork() unconditionally?
>
>  There is a lot of work done to use vfork() as much as possible,
>  and 1.10 will have almost all applets converted to vfork() use.
>

Any hint on when 1.10 will be released?

Is there anything left to be converted? Perhaps I will be able to
contribute something. For instance, from your link it looks like
ifupdown is not converted yet.

Regards,
Aleksey



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