fork() system call is implemented via the clone() system call. the clone() system call internally calls do_fork() to do the bulk of the wrk (forking i.e). So fork() does call do_fork but not directly. Refer to Robert Love's book (chapter 2 Process Mgmt -> process creation) for a more details...... On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:41, surendra singh bisht wrote: > > hi, > > the sys_fork() system call call do_fork() and sys_clone() > do the same ,then why it is said (and written in big books) > that fork is implemented via clone system call ??. > > > surendra bisht > > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
