Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: One question about fork, vfork and clone | Date | Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:41:42 +0200 |
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On Middeweken 15 Juni 2005 10:17, Roy Lee wrote: > is this means the library calls no more wrap the sys_clone() for the > three library call(fork,vfork,clone), but > call the corresponding syscall? or it never did that?
The sys_vfork and sys_fork entry points are there so old libc versions can still work. Some architectures that were added after sys_clone was introduced wrongly copied this code, but new architectures that get added should just provide sys_clone and have the other calls implemented as wrappers in libc.
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