From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 12 7:44:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B7214DB8 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id HAA25802; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:43:31 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id HAA23576; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:43:26 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id HAA17568; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:42:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387CA1FA.3B14779D@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:47:06 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rfork() [was: Concept check] References: <200001120534.AAA10170@unknown.nowhere.org> <200001120556.VAA67332@apollo.backplane.com> <20000111224129.K302@sturm.canonware.com> <200001120701.XAA67787@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> > :> The reason is that rfork(RFMEM) does not give the new process a new > :> stack, so both the old and new processes wind up on the same original > :> stack and stomp all over each other. > : > :There is an implementation of clone() in the linuxthreads port, written by > :Richard Seaman. > : > :Jason > > No manual page, tho :-( Sheldon, do you want to tackle that one? You seem to be in a manpage mood these days. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message