Re: RFC: on adding new CLONE_* flags [WAS Re: [PATCH 0/4] clone: add CLONE_PIDFD]

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 16:21:31 EST


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:55 PM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ... I guess that already has a name, and it's called vfork(). (Well,
> except that the Linux vfork() isn't a real vfork().)

What?

Linux vfork() is very much a real vfork(). What do you mean?

Linus