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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: Borja Marcos <borjam@we.lc.ehu.es>
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Subject: Re: Linux clone() system call
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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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