Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:54:11 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/amd64/sys vfork.S Message-ID: <20030430215411.D42832A7EA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <37015.1051726476@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote:
> In message <200304301813.h3UIDEKt020259@repoman.freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm writ
es
> :
> >peter 2003/04/30 11:13:14 PDT
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > lib/libc/amd64/sys vfork.S
> > Log:
> > Update for AMD64 (repocopied from i386/sys/Ovfork.S - why is it O?)
>
> "Old" I belive, weren't you around when we made vfork() do what the
> manual page had said all the time and everything from inetd to /bin/csh
> broke ?
Well yes, but it defines a function called "vfork", not "Ovfork". Yes, I
remember the excitement it caused.
Incidently, we also have an 'obreak' syscall, which brk() and sbrk() call.
We don't actually use the sbrk(2) syscall - sbrk.S uses obreak(2).
Cheers,
-Peter
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