Thank you for your replying. As I said on the mail I sent just before, I want to know how fork() sets the parameter of sys_fork(). Is that easy call? Regards, Shinpei Kato On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:53:11 +0100 "Anup Patil" <patil_a@etech.haw-hamburg.de> wrote: > > > ----- 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/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
