I think what you are looking for is implemented in C library.
Look into the C lib code for fork implementation.

- A


On 4/22/08, Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Michael Kerrisk
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Michael Kerrisk
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  in robert love's "linux kernel development" book (p. 31), i read:
> > > >
> > > > "The fork(), vfork() and __clone() library calls all invoke the
> > > > clone() system call with the requisite flags."  assuming that,
> > > > nowadays, it would be __clone2() and not __clone(), where in the
> > > > source for glibc-2.7 could i see the implementation of those calls?
> > >
> > > nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/fork.c, for example.
> > >
> > > clone2 is IA-64 only (AFAIK).
> >
> > And for vfork: nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/vfork.S
>
> (which means, by the way, that Robert's statement about vfork() isn't
> true, AFAICS)
>
>
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