Where to implement fork()

[Christian Haake]

On 09.07.2012 21:53, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 02:23 PM, Christian Haake wrote:
>> Hi,
>> while implementing newlib stubs I'm wondering where I should implement
>> fork().
>> I successfully implemented _sbrk in
>> <pathtonewlib>/newlib/libc/sys/arm/syscalls.c but there is no function
>> stub called _fork(void)
>> Or can I simply add this function stub into this file?!?
>> Can anybody give me a hint?
> I suspect you are adding bare board specific code. This would
> go in libgloss where there are already a number of stubs
> for fork() and other methods.
Yes, it is board specific. I run a
./configure target=arm-elf
in the projects root for targeting arm architecture. Furthermore I 
implemented the syscalls.c in the folder mentioned earlier but did not 
yet consider to do my stuff in the libgloss folder. So thanks for that hint.
But anyhow, in <pathtonewlib>/libgloss/arm/syscalls.c there is no 
function stub for fork() as well.
A grep for fork in the same folder shows no function stub.
Do I have to add this stub to syscalls.c ?!? Other kinds of architecture 
do have a fork.c inside.


> IMO there are some unfortunately named directories in libc/sys which
> appear to be generic CPU support but they are really for specific
> "systems." The sys/arm directory is questionably named because
> it is really support for the ARM Angel/RDI monitor.  Mostly a
> confusing historical artifact at this point.
Thanks, I'll think of it in my future work.