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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> 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. > > Looks like it was eliminated 11 years ago by Sarathy. > https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/52e18b1f277416a33dff2c066a83fdab0520a2d7 > > 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.Thread Previous