Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Porting vfork() | Date | 7 Jan 1999 00:50:15 GMT |
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Followup to: <19990105154611.A16497@draper.net> By author: kernel@draper.net In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > So, the question: is linux vfork() behavior annoying anyone else and is it > worth fixing? (other than to eliminate its appearance in the BUG area of the > Linux fork() man page ;) >
I think you can mimic the BSD vfork() at the library level by using clone() and perhaps trapping exec().
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