Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:26:32 +0100 | From | Pjotr Kourzanov <> | Subject | Re: fork/clone external to a process? |
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Dan Sturtevant wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any clean way to fork a process from outside the process itself? > > I'm running a commercial application that I only have a binary copy > of. All the usual Posix fork stuff only works from inside the running > process.
Have you tried playing with LD_PRELOAD (libc.so hack)?
> > Is there any reason it's not possible to do so? Obviously threading > and file desciptors open a whole can of worms, but in the base case, > is it possible? > > Thanks in advance, and sorry if it's a stupid question. > > Dan Sturtevant > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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