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Re: vfork()

	Hi,

Rupa wrote:
> when a call to vfork() is made, the child process created will be 
> sharing the address space of the parent. I want to know whether the pid 
> returned by the vfork() is same as the pid of parent. Because in case of 

	No, it isn't:

	Please check SuS v2:

"Upon successful completion, vfork() returns 0 to the child process and 
returns the process ID of the child process to the parent process. 
Otherwise, -1 is returned to the parent, no child process is created, 
and errno is set to indicate the error."

	Kind Regards,

Felipe

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