issues with clone vs fork

Rogelio Serrano rogelio.serrano at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 02:58:44 UTC 2006


On 3/25/06, Rob Landley <rob at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2006 5:24 am, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > What are the issue with clone vs fork?
>
>
> fork() is implemented via a call to clone().  Clone can do 8 gazillion
> different things depending on what flags you feed it.
>
> Rob
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Thats cool.

I have emulated fork with private namespaces using clone.I can now do
stuff plan9 is doing. I  can remove the superuser from the kernel now.

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