Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:04:39 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <mlsr@mega.ist.utl.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where should I send this ? Message-ID: <20000611000439.C233@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000610191445.A4FFC11DF12@mega.ist.utl.pt>; from mlsr@mega.ist.utl.pt on Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:14:45PM %2B0100 References: <20000610191445.A4FFC11DF12@mega.ist.utl.pt>
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On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:14:45PM +0100, Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos wrote:
>
> Hello !
>
> There appears to be a mistake in the manpage of rfork(2)
> in the description for the flag RFMEM used to create a new process
> sharing the address space of the first we may read the following words:
> "The stack segment is always split"
>
> Well this seems to mean that the kernel creates a new stack for the
> new process (in the case rfork(RFPROC | RFMEM)) but this appears not
> to be the case... apparently the user must create the stack for the
> new process himself, and if this is not done the new process is obviously
> terminated with SIGSEGV...
>
> if this is true (which I am obviously not sure, it is possible that
> something escapes me...) what should read in the manpage would be
> "Unless RFPPWAIT is also specified, a new stack segment must be
> created by the child process immediatly after the call."
>
> Tell me something about this...
> If there is a better mailing list for the discution of this, tell me
>
freebsd-docs is the list you want or, if you have the fix, submit a PR
using send-pr(1).
HTH
> Miguel Ramos, mlsr@mega.ist.utl.pt
>
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