Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] Replace fork with clone to share file descriptors between parent and child.

[David Ramsey]

Chiming in for the record.

Benno Schulenberg:
> Is the clone() function POSIX?  Because it does not seem to exist
> on OpenBSD:

According to the manual page on my Slackware 14.2 (plus bits of current)
system, which has man-pages 4.06, clone() is Linux-specific.  Obviously,
as your compilation attempts show, other Unix-type systems have it, but
it doesn't sound as though it's that portable.

Also, on an unrelated note, I've noted one instance of malloc() in the
patch.  Shouldn't it be using the nmalloc() wrapper instead, as
everything else does?