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| author | Andr� Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> | 2010-06-15 03:33:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-15 03:33:53 +0200 |
| commit | 3821a5957f93729394212db96b0362db79de1c51 (patch) | |
| tree | 2be19bd3674e95c7f7732dcdb4f95c564ca8bbe7 | |
| parent | 09d3f6940c81684b3b569fa2210709c60d7e2d56 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-3821a5957f93729394212db96b0362db79de1c51.tar.gz | |
vfork.2: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/vfork.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2 index ef86812ab7..18e2be2428 100644 --- a/man2/vfork.2 +++ b/man2/vfork.2 @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is a special case of It is used to create new processes without copying the page tables of the parent process. It may be useful in performance-sensitive applications -where a child will be created which then immediately issues an +where a child is created which then immediately issues an .BR execve (2). .PP .BR vfork () @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ child was using its resources. The use of .BR vfork () was 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 held in a register. .SH "CONFORMING TO" 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. |