Re: fork/clone external to a process?

From: Pjotr Kourzanov
Date: Tue Dec 21 2004 - 18:29:03 EST


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
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