Re: vfork revisited (was 64bit clean XEmacs)
Georg Nikodym writes:
| >>>>> "mt" == Marcus Thiessel <marcus(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
| Plan 9 has an rfork() call that took an argument which is a bitmap of
| resources to share between parent and child.
Do you have any additional pointers to web resources? I would be
interested in the things that have changed.
| I believe Linux has something like this. I looked at under the covers
| and saw the do_fork() in the kernel takes a clone_flags argument which
| can control fairly precisely what gets duplicated in the child.
I thought the clone was implemented for the use with kernel
threads.