Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:20:47 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Porting vfork() |
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 01:06:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Perry Harrington wrote:
> I discussed this issue with Linus as well, and concluded that > vforking within a cloned process can be achieved via putting the > sleep_on in the task structure. I'm going to be working on this > tonight and I'll see what I can do.
I do think a sempahore would be appropriate to avoid the possibility of recursion.
Last time I checked BSD doesn't even fully handle the recursive vfork() case, and thus we should not need to either. Just make sure the kernel retains it's own internal integrity in such a case, nothing more.
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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