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David Xu wrote this message on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 17:17 +0800:
> work in the past. Also rfork() does not allow you to specify user stack, you
> have to add some tricky code to make it safe before new
> thread really can do real work, [...]

That's why you use rfork_thread(3)...

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