I think what you are looking for is implemented in C library.
Look into the C lib code for fork implementation.
- A
On 4/22/08, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Michael Kerrisk
> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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).
>
> And for vfork: nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/vfork.S
(which means, by the way, that Robert's statement about vfork() isn't
true, AFAICS)
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