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Which is great, albeit easy to use wrong; but it's not portable, unfortunately.


It's portable enough: Linux, Darwin, and the BSDs all support it. Darwin also supports posix_spawn natively. Even Cygwin supports it, although Cygwin's vfork is currently just an alias for fork.


I seem to remember Cygwin having all sorts of weird problems with fork behaviour, but I'm no C programmer let alone doing stuff on Windows, so I might be remembering incorrectly




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