----- Original Message ----- From: <shinny@j02.itscom.net> To: <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: fork() source code > Hi, all > > This question may be really basic though, > I'm studying how the linux creates a process and schedules it on > 2.6 at the moment. > The core function to create a process seems to be do_fork() in > kernel/fork.c. > And do_fork() is called from sys_fork() or sys_clone(). > But we usually use fork() not sys_fork(), don't we? > So I downloaded the latest libc(glibc-2.3.2) source and looked for >fork(). > However there are several functions and files that are likely to be >fork(). > Which fork() in which file is the real we call from our program? > > Regards, > Shinpei Kato > -- That is about glibc and has nothing to do with linux kernel. glibc provides wrappers for sys_fork() which is then called from user space programs. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
