Thank you for helping me to understand the idea and concept. Have a great day!
Best Regards,
Daniel (Youngwhan) Song
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Daniel....
Glad you make it.... :)
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song
<breadncup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you, Mulyadi, now, I could understand about NPTL implementation and
> lightweight process concept.
I can not check it right now, so I leave that to your own finding. The
> One thing I want to check is that it looks that the system call, clone()
> eventually calls do_fork() in fork.c
> (http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32/kernel/fork.c#L1375) which is the last
> stage of the creation of thread.
>
> So, it looks like fork(), vfork(), and clone() system calls through
> sys_fork(), sys_vfork(), sys_clone(), and they are eventually calls
> do_fork().
basics is the same though, there is one fundamental function whose job
is create thread....then it called by many different wrapper with
different set of flags. I guess you already got this idea.
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Mulyadi Santosa
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