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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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