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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2018-07-05 12:24:09 +0200
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2018-07-05 12:24:09 +0200
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Merge branch 'sverker/purge-vfork' into maint
* sverker/purge-vfork: erts: Remove obsolete paragraph about ERL_NO_VFORK
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml7
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 29b1d106cd..73800687b7 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -3772,13 +3772,6 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code>
If found, that driver is started. A driver runs in the Erlang
work space, which means that it is linked with the Erlang
runtime system.</p>
- <p>When starting external programs on Solaris, the system
- call <c>vfork</c> is used in preference to <c>fork</c>
- for performance reasons, although it has a history of
- being less robust. If there are problems using
- <c>vfork</c>, setting environment variable
- <c>ERL_NO_VFORK</c> to any value causes <c>fork</c>
- to be used instead.</p>
<p>For external programs, <c>PATH</c> is searched
(or an equivalent method is used to find programs,
depending on the OS). This is done by invoking