On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:19:53PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote: > Andrew Doran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > You mean l->l_private should be copied on fork? Absolutely. > > > > For native fork I agree, but that's probably not the right thing to do if > > FORK_SHARESIGS or whatever it's called (i.e. clone()ing off a Linux-style > > thread). > > > > (Some day I hope we can emulate clone with _lwp_create() and undo a lot of > > the complication to the process data structures.) > > Chuck already did that for COMPAT_LINUX. :) Do you mean something else?
Then its major usecase is gone and emulation may not be required in the long term. I'm fully aware of IRIX emulation and compatibility headaches.
