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From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net>
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Subject: Re: rfork()
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John,

With very little experience in assembly, could you or
someone else give me a small example?

Thanks in advance,
Michael Mercer


"John S. Dyson" wrote:
> 
> Michael E. Mercer said:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This was posted to freebsd-questions with no reply.
> > I tried this and the child process created a core file.
> > I also tried the other options and they seem to work.
> > Just RFPROC and RFMEM DON'T!
> >
> rfork(RFMEM) doesn't easily work from C.  You need to
> create an assembly stub.
> 
> --
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