> > anymore. But I'm already _running_ this program. If I could fork() I > > could already get a second copy of the sucker and call main() again > > myself if necessary, but I can't, so... You can - ptrace 8) > > honoring the suid bit if people feel that way. I just wanna unblock > > vfork() while still running this code. Would it make more sense to have a way to promote your vfork into a fork when you hit these cases (I appreciate that fork on NOMMU has a much higher performance cost as you start having to softmmu copy or swap pages). Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html