[uClibc] vfork() wrapper in libpthread: BAD!

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Wed May 5 04:42:39 UTC 2004


On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:30:17PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue May 04, 2004 at 05:33:13PM +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > I wonder how the old 16bit minix implemented fork.
> 
> Good question.  dunno.

16 bit pointers, so copying the (<= 64k) data segment for a fork
didn't change address offsets as far as the process was concerned.

Manuel



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