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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