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SubjectRe: Memory over: committing SUICIDE
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Cameron MacKinnon <mackin@interlog.com> writes:

> John Wyszynski <wyszynsk@clark.net> wrote:
> > While the whole chain has been somewhat interesting, I still believe that
> > for a production environment, this is SUICIDE.
> >
> > (1) For the situation where large processes fork and immediately exec,
> > many other *IX system have a "vfork" system call to handle the situation.
>
> Feel free to write one if you require it. You could also consider
> donating it to the cause.

It's easy to emulate vfork() with clone(..., CLONE_VM);

-Andi

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