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From: Guan Yang guanix@sof...
Subject: [9fans] spawn() vs fork()
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 09:53:43 +0000

Hi

What are the advantages of fork() vs spawn() for system()-like uses? I
couldn't find this in comp.os.research FAQ.

>From an application programmer's point of view spawn() would be much
easier to use, except when creating two processes or threads that do
exactly the same thing.

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