vfork glibc clarification

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> writes:

> You can just add it to the syscalls.list for both sparc ports and it
> will just work.

I cannot simply do that since it won't work on kernels without this
syscalls.  Therefore we have these wrapper functions which fall back
on fork().

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