From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 10 16: 4:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E104E37B534 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.75]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000610230442.MGTA290.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:04:42 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA00640; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:04:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:04:39 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where should I send this ? Message-ID: <20000611000439.C233@parish> References: <20000610191445.A4FFC11DF12@mega.ist.utl.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000610191445.A4FFC11DF12@mega.ist.utl.pt>; from mlsr@mega.ist.utl.pt on Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:14:45PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Want a lean, mean, computing machine? Get rid of that excess FAT - install FreeBSD ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message