Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix vfork() syscall emulation

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:56:45AM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2008/9/18 Kirill A. Shutemov <address@hidden>:
> > vfork() is a kind of fork, not thread despite CLONE_VM
> 
> According to clone(2) it can be either, the only difference is that
> vfork() suspends the parent process.  So if CLONE_VM is set, I think
> still the pthread / clone way should be used and the child thread
> should be waited on.

Also process created with vfork(2) share stack with parent. Every thread
has its own stack.

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Regards,  Kirill A. Shutemov
 + Belarus, Minsk
 + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/

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