craig.a.berry at gmail
May 6, 2012, 7:18 AM
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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Michael G Schwern <schwern [at] pobox> wrote:
> In answering a StackOverflow question, I did a quick grep for what Perl
> actually does with vfork after going through the trouble detecting it. The
> answer appears to be: nothing.
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> Looks like it was eliminated 11 years ago by Sarathy.
> https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/52e18b1f277416a33dff2c066a83fdab0520a2d7
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> Any strong objections to eliminating the associated vfork debris? Looks like
> config stuff, hint files, and some special VMS code can all just be deleted.
I don't object but I wasn't sure on a quick glance how much of what's
left has to do with calling vfork() from Perl (which I think you're
right has been gone a long time) and how much with making vfork()
slightly safer when called from XS.
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