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Date:      Wed, 4 Jun 1997 20:37:19 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Borja Marcos <borjam@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux clone() system call
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970604203615.10684A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <9706041530.AA02422@sirius.we.lc.ehu.es>

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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Borja Marcos wrote:

> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> 	Anyone knows what is the clone() system call in Lunux?
> It seems not to be supported by the Linux emulator. I tried running
> the Linux version of Inferno and it died with something like
> "clone(): unimplemented system call".
> 
> 	I did a "man clone" in a Linux box and it gave me
> the "undocumented calls" man page.
> 

Clone() does something similar to rfork, only it can be used to create a
new thread instead of a new process. Used to emulate kernel level threads.

	Sander

> 
> 	Borja.
> 
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