Re: fork/clone external to a process?

[Pjotr Kourzanov]

Dan Sturtevant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any clean way to fork a process from outside the process itself?
>
> I'm running a commercial application that I only have a binary copy
> of.  All the usual Posix fork stuff only works from inside the running
> process.

  Have you tried playing with LD_PRELOAD (libc.so hack)?

> Is there any reason it's not possible to do so?  Obviously threading
> and file desciptors open a whole can of worms, but in the base case,
> is it possible?
>
> Thanks in advance, and sorry if it's a stupid question.
>
> Dan Sturtevant
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