Re: rfork() [was: Concept check]

[Alexander Litvin]

Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> :BTW, concerning rfork(RFMEM). Could somebody explain me, why the
> :following simple program is coredumping:

>     You cannot call rfork() with RFMEM directly from a C program.  You
>     have to use assembly (has anyone created a native clone() call yet
>     to do all the hard work?).

>     The reason is that rfork(RFMEM) does not give the new process a new
>     stack, so both the old and new processes wind up on the same original
>     stack and stomp all over each other.

Oh, well, I suspected something like that (from what I saw, trying to
debug that small piece of code).

Should it be at least mentioned in rfork(2)?

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