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khuey
on Oct 5, 2018
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A future for fork(2)
fork(2) is largely superseded by clone(2) which works similarly to rfork. The CLONE_VM flag is equivalent to rfork's RFMEM.
jadbox
on Oct 6, 2018
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Weird, I've never seen clone(2) used before
caf
on Oct 6, 2018
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It's used in the implementation of pthread_create().
dullgiulio
on Oct 6, 2018
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Also fork(3) (the libc wrapper using GLIBC), is often just calling clone(2) internally:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18904292/is-it-true-that...
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