Re: where to look at userspace implementation of fork() and clone()?

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  in robert love's "linux kernel development" book (p. 31), i read:
>
> "The fork(), vfork() and __clone() library calls all invoke the
> clone() system call with the requisite flags."  assuming that,
> nowadays, it would be __clone2() and not __clone(), where in the
> source for glibc-2.7 could i see the implementation of those calls?

nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/fork.c, for example.

clone2 is IA-64 only (AFAIK).

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