From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Goddard_Rosa?= Subject: [PATCH][RESEND] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:47:04 +0900 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=001636d33e9ec630b30477091739 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --001636d33e9ec630b30477091739 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>From 33671da01189ff40533708c1d81e6d78bfa5e312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =3D?UTF-8?q?Andr=3DC3=3DA9=3D20Goddard=3D20Rosa?=3D Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:44:17 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs ten= se MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Andr=E9 Goddard Rosa diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2 index ef86812..4f73f80 100644 --- a/man2/vfork.2 +++ b/man2/vfork.2 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is a special case of =A0It is used to create new processes without copying the page tables of =A0the parent process. =A0It may be useful in performance-sensitive applications -where a child will be created which then immediately issues an +where a child will be created which then will immediately issue an =A0.BR execve (2). =A0.PP =A0.BR vfork () @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ and to create a unique task structure for the child. =A0However, in the bad old days a =A0.BR fork (2) =A0would require making a complete copy of the caller's data space, -often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards an +often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards a +.BR vfork () +an =A0.BR exec (3) =A0is done. =A0Thus, for greater efficiency, BSD introduced the @@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ child was using its resources. =A0The use of =A0.BR vfork () =A0was tricky: for example, not modifying data -in the parent process depended on knowing which variables are +in the parent process depended on knowing which variables were =A0held in a register. =A0.SH "CONFORMING TO" =A04.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. -- 1.6.5.1.31.gad12b --001636d33e9ec630b30477091739 Content-Type: text/x-patch; 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