Re: Appendix: multithreating HOWTO ? :)

[Frank Kotler <fbkotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Claudio Fontana wrote:
> £ukasz wrote:
> > in appendix i want to just precize problem. Broblem is how to write, 
> > create etc, shared memory for parent and child proceses, where they 
> > could for example exchange wariables
>
> You are using fork. Fork is used to create new processes.
> You probably want clone instead, to create new threads and specify
> which resources to share between the two threads.
>
> man 2 clone
>
> sys_clone is 120 (0x78).

Is that a 64-bit sys_call number? I thought they'd changed that on us. 
AFAIK, __NR_clone is 56 these days... and "syscall" replaces int 0x80. A 
real "curve ball" to asm programmers! Well, they *told* us not to do it 
that way. :)

Best,
Frank

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