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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man2/vfork.2 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/vfork.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/vfork.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b1a452b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/vfork.2 @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.30 2021/06/09 06:00:16 nia Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)vfork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd June 9, 2021 +.Dt VFORK 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vfork +.Nd spawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft pid_t +.Fn vfork void +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +system call creates a new process that does not have a new +virtual address space, but rather shares address space with the +parent, thus avoiding potentially expensive copy-on-write operations +normally associated with creating a new process. +It is useful when the purpose of +.Xr fork 2 +would have been to create a new system context for an +.Xr execve 2 . +The +.Nm +system call differs from +.Xr fork 2 +in that the child borrows the parent's memory and thread of +control until a call to +.Xr execve 2 +or an exit (either by a call to +.Xr _exit 2 +or abnormally). +The parent process is suspended while the child is using its resources. +.Pp +The +.Nm +system call returns 0 in the child's context and (later) the pid +of the child in the parent's context. +.Pp +The +.Nm +system call can normally be used just like +.Xr fork 2 . +It does not work, however, to return while running in the child's context +from the procedure that called +.Fn vfork +since the eventual return from +.Fn vfork +would then return to a no longer existing stack frame. +Be careful, also, to call +.Xr _exit 2 +rather than +.Xr exit 3 +if you can't +.Xr execve 2 , +since +.Xr exit 3 +will flush and close standard I/O channels, and thereby mess up the +standard I/O data structures +in the parent process. +(Even with +.Xr fork 2 +it is wrong to call +.Xr exit 3 +since buffered data would then be flushed twice.) +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Same as for +.Xr fork 2 . +.Sh ERRORS +Same as for +.Xr fork 2 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr execve 2 , +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr sigaction 2 , +.Xr wait 2 , +.Xr posix_spawn 3 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn vfork +function call appeared in +.Bx 3.0 . +In +.Bx 4.4 , +the semantics were changed to only suspend the parent and not share +the address space. +The original semantics were reintroduced in +.Nx 1.4 . +.Sh BUGS +Portable applications should not depend on the memory sharing +semantics of +.Fn vfork +as implementations exist that implement +.Fn vfork +as plain +.Xr fork 2 . +.Pp +To avoid a possible deadlock situation, processes that are children +in the middle of a +.Fn vfork +are never sent +.Dv SIGTSTP , +.Dv SIGTTOU +or +.Dv SIGTTIN +signals; rather, output or +.Xr ioctl 2 +calls are allowed and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication. +.Pp +New applications should prefer +.Xr posix_spawn 3 +over +.Nm +followed by +.Xr execve 2 . |
