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Re: [PATCH roland/nptl] Clean up NPTL fork to be compat-only.
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:32:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/nptl] Clean up NPTL fork to be compat-only.
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Roland McGrath wrote:
> +/* libpthread once had its own fork, though there was no apparent reason
> + for it. There is no use in having a separate symbol in libpthread, but
> + the historical ABI requires it. For static linking, there is no need to
> + provide anything here--the libc version will be linked in. For shared
> + library ABI compatibility, there must be __vfork and vfork symbols in
__fork and fork not __vfork and vfork?
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Joseph S. Myers
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