From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 28 11:10:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C7D14BDD for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01344 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:10:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA34201 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:10:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from io.yi.org (24.66.174.118.bc.wave.home.com [24.66.174.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FCA14BDD for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@checker.org) Received: from io.yi.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by io.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A85ED1FD7; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rfork patch, please comment In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:54:07 +0200." <38188DBF.FCD05915@scc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:10:29 -0700 From: Jake Burkholder Message-Id: <19991028181029.A85ED1FD7@io.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [No time yet to dig into this in more detail] > > Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > I've made a patch that adds linux 'clone' style support > > to rfork, and I'd like to hear opinions on whether this > > is an ok way to do it. > > Does this improve the support for clone in the Linuxulator? No, there is already some support there. That's where I got the idea, see /usr/src/sys/i386/linux/linux_misc.c:linux_clone. What it does, as I see it, is open the door for native kernel threads, which of course still requires a thread-safe libc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message