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vfork.2: Minor wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ as it will, in that case, be made synonymous to
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However, even though modern memory management hardware
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has decreased the performance difference between
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.BR fork ()
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.BR fork (2)
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and
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.BR vfork (2),
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.BR vfork (),
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there are various reasons why Linux and other systems have retained
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.BR vfork ():
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.IP * 3
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@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Some performance-critical applications require the small performance
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advantage conferred by
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.BR vfork ().
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.IP *
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.BR vfork (2)
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.BR vfork ()
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can be implemented on systems that lack a memory-management unit (MMU), but
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.BR fork (2)
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can't be implemented on such systems.
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