Re: a fork-like C-wrapper for clone(), DONE!

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 14:15:51 EST


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.

        -hpa

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