Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 11:53:48 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: rjs@genrad.co.uk Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Borja Marcos <borjam@we.lc.ehu.es> Subject: Re: Linux clone() system call Message-ID: <3395B9BC.6201DD56@whistle.com> References: <199706041801.LAA14806@hub.freebsd.org>
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Robert Swindells wrote: > > It creates kernel threads. Since we don't have kernel threads yet, it > can't be emulated. > > I modified the linux emulator on my system to print out the arguments > to this system call just to check if Inferno was really trying to > create a new thread or if the call could be emulated by fork(). > > > I did a "man clone" in a Linux box and it gave me > > the "undocumented calls" man page. > > > it can be emulated almost exactly using the 'rfork(2)' call
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