clone(CLONE_VFORK) behavior

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Tue Jun 30 20:58:00 GMT 2009


On Tuesday 30 June 2009 15:02:41 David Wuertele wrote:
> The man page for clone() says:
>
>   If CLONE_VFORK is set, the execution of the calling process is
> suspended until the child releases its virtual memory resources via a
> call to execve(2) or _exit(2) (as with vfork(2)).

the glibc interface to clone() is merely a wrapper to the kernel.  you'll 
probably have better luck posting your question either to lkml or the man-
pages list.
-mike
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