From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 17:28:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC0F37B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:28:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from unixs1.cis.pitt.edu (pfg1@[136.142.185.31]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with SMTP id <01JWTCGOHC8O000B8F@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:27:06 EST Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:27:06 -0500 (EST) From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: sfork() ?? In-reply-to: <20001122004551.A50272@hand.dotat.at> X-Sender: pfg1@unixs1.cis.pitt.edu To: Tony Finch Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It might be.. rfork comes from plan 9 and along with sfork it wasn't part of the 4.4BSDlite 2 release, OTOH if both are the same, why aren't we referencing it in our syscalls for compatibility with BSDI ? I can't find a reference to sfork elsewhere, but anyone with BSD/OS 2.x or later should know for sure. cheers, Pedro. On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tony Finch wrote: > "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > > >Can someone knowledgeable comment on what it does, and maybe if it could > >(or should) be brought into FreeBSD ? > > Perhaps you are looking for rfork()? AFAIK Irix calls rfork() sfork(). > > Tony. > -- > f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@covalent.net Chad for President! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message