Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: a fork-like C-wrapper for clone(), DONE! | Date | 25 Apr 2001 12:15:51 -0700 |
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Followup to: <3AE6CD6B.745E@mat.upc.es> By author: Francesc Oller <francesc@mat.upc.es> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi all, > > Some days before I asked for a fork-like C-wrapper for clone() which > could be used like fork() thinking that somebody could have done it > before but I only received two e-mails saying that probably it > wasn't worth it or even it was complete non-sense. > > Therefore, I've done it myself. Code follows. > > Please, before beginning to flame me for doing "such kind of non- > standard threading model", I've to say that IMHO it has some merit. > After all it was E.W.Dijkstra who invented it in the late sixties. >
glibc already contains such a wrapper; it is called __clone(). At least my system has "man clone" show the man page for it.
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