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+?RCS: $Id: d_vfork.U,v 3.0.1.2 1993/10/16 13:49:39 ram Exp $
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
+?RCS:
+?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
+?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
+?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
+?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
+?RCS: of the source tree for dist 3.0.
+?RCS:
+?RCS: $Log: d_vfork.U,v $
+?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1993/10/16 13:49:39 ram
+?RCS: patch12: added magic for vfork()
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1993/09/13 16:06:57 ram
+?RCS: patch10: removed automatic remapping of vfork on fork (WAD)
+?RCS: patch10: added compatibility code for older config.sh (WAD)
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:07:55 ram
+?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
+?RCS:
+?MAKE:d_vfork: Inlibc
+?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
+?S:d_vfork:
+?S: This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
+?S: indicates the vfork() routine is available.
+?S:.
+?C:HAS_VFORK (VFORK):
+?C: This symbol, if defined, indicates that vfork() exists.
+?C:.
+?H:#$d_vfork HAS_VFORK /**/
+?H:.
+?M:vfork: HAS_VFORK
+?M:#ifndef HAS_VFORK
+?M:#define vfork fork
+?M:#endif
+?M:.
+?LINT:set d_vfork
+: see if there is a vfork
+set vfork d_vfork
+eval $inlibc
+: But do we want to use it. vfork is reportedly unreliable in
+: perl in Solaris 2.x, and probably elsewhere.
+case "$d_vfork" in
+define)
+ dflt='n'
+ rp="Some systems have problems with vork. Do you want to use it?"
+ . ./myread
+ case "$ans" in
+ y|Y) ;;
+ *) echo "Ok, we won't use vfork."
+ d_vfork="$undef"
+ ;;
+ esac
+ ;;
+esac