October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 28m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Kernel Development
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vfork()
Unlike fork(), vfork() creates a child process and blocks the parent, which means that the child runs as a single thread and does not allow concurrency; in other words, the parent process is temporarily suspended until the child exits or call exec(). The child shares the data of the parent.