X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/blobdiff_plain/0f4556f12c8f75078501c9d1338ae7648a97f975..95f51977ddc18faa2e212f30c00a39540b39f325:/usr/man/man2/vfork.2 diff --git a/usr/man/man2/vfork.2 b/usr/man/man2/vfork.2 index ce4f5e7081..a017a9d8c9 100644 --- a/usr/man/man2/vfork.2 +++ b/usr/man/man2/vfork.2 @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ -.TH VFORK 2 "2 July 1983" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement +.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. +.\" +.\" @(#)vfork.2 6.2 (Berkeley) 6/30/85 +.\" +.TH VFORK 2 "June 30, 1985" .UC 4 .SH NAME vfork \- spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way @@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ the parent's context. can normally be used just like .I fork. It does not work, however, to return while running in the childs context -from the procedure which called +from the procedure that called .I vfork since the eventual return from .I vfork @@ -68,7 +74,7 @@ as it will, in that case, be made synonymous to .IR fork . .PP To avoid a possible deadlock situation, -processes which are children in the middle +processes that are children in the middle of a .I vfork are never sent SIGTTOU or SIGTTIN signals; rather,