Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Question about clone() implementation | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:55:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> "Operations on file descriptors performed later by one of the > parent or child processes do not affect the other."
Ok I can see that being slightly misleading. What it means is things like open/close/dup2
> the new table. From this it would appear that even though the > file descriptor table is different, the child process is still > sharing the specific fd. This means that if the child does > an lseek() on a file, f_pos will change in both the child and the > parent.
That is correct, and also posixly correct. So the documentation is misleading
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