Someone with knowledge in VM/fork (and Copy on Write) needed

2006-06-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, Roman (and I) need someone who is able to explain fork() and VM stuff. The problem is that the linux clone() syscall is supposed to do COW of the stack in some cases (if the child_stack argument is NULL it has to COW the thread stack, making a copy immediately is maybe ok too as a

Re: Someone with knowledge in VM/fork (and Copy on Write) needed

2006-06-08 Thread Kip Macy
Take a look at vm_forkproc in vm_glue.c -Kip On 6/8/06, Alexander Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Roman (and I) need someone who is able to explain fork() and VM stuff. The problem is that the linux clone() syscall is supposed to do COW of the stack in some cases (if the child_stack

Re: Someone with knowledge in VM/fork (and Copy on Write) needed

2006-06-08 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, Roman (and I) need someone who is able to explain fork() and VM stuff. The problem is that the linux clone() syscall is supposed to do COW of the stack in some cases (if the child_stack argument is NULL it has to COW