From f0b12c0461bd6d86f6fa34255f99b760e34dba04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: akr Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:41:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe about vfork(). git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@47389 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- NEWS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0a8de5fbcc..7ae255fd00 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file. * Extended method: * Process execution methods such as Process.spawn opens the file in write mode for redirect from [:out, :err]. + * Process creation methods, such as spawn(), uses vfork() system call. + vfork() is faster than fork() when the parent process uses huge memory. * Symbol * New methods