Re: Doubt fork system call

[Darshan Ghumare <darshan.ghumare@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:38 PM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Every time a fork() is callled in any user-space code, it internally invokes the clone() sys call, But if we linux kernel source code there is a system call by name fork().

So, what i really want to know is that, is there any case in which this syscall is getting called, or this code is deprecated.

Have a look at this link,

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1nCQJE0oRE0C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=fork+robert+love&source=bl&ots=Zhn6QR9ZJ7&sig=Y7X0gQx10QoK6VRydG2dUGUADf0&hl=en&ei=tF9nTt-5Jo3IrQeUq6CKCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false 

Regards,
Rohan

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