On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:35:16AM +0000, Christophe DUMONT wrote: > How does the kernel knows when a process calls the fork function that > he has the rights to create a new process ? Not sure what you mean by rights, but in copy_process you can see different checks and errors that can happen when creating a new process: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/fork.c#L1760 -- Valentin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies