getpid/vfork broken

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Tue Mar 9 03:50:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:04:09PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> No.  There is a reason why a vfork syscall was introduced.  There aren't
> enough registers to use clone and hold the return address.

On x86, perhaps.  The rest can do so.


r~



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