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@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ Portability and stability
author on implementations other than SBCL, so testing and portability
patches are welcome.
+- Lisp implementations which will run on the hosts you wish to configure must
+ expose some mechanism for safely calling fork(2), like ``SB-POSIX:FORK`` in
+ the case of SBCL. The root Lisp does not need to fork(2).
+
- Little attempt is made by the author to support systems other than Debian
GNU/Linux, but again, portability patches are welcome, and the design of
Consfigurator should enable supporting other systems.