Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vfork | Date | Mon, 01 Nov 1999 20:53:54 +0000 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>For i386 vfork has it's own kernel entry point. Because someone >couldn't figure out how to call clone, and have enough registers left >to make vfork work . . .
There's also the question of making it fail gracefully (ie fall back to fork) on older kernels without the support. If you rely on clone() then an old kernel will just ignore CLONE_VFORK and things will go downhill pretty sharply after that.
p.
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