Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > You could, of course, write a kernel API for creating processes from > > scratch. They'd still need a parent, but you can use init(8) (pid 1) > > for that. > If we were to implement POSIX spawn(), we'd need something like this.
Uh, no. posix_spawn(3) can be implemented entirely in userland and does not require any special kernel support. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"