On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Perry Harrington wrote:
> I discussed this issue with Linus as well, and concluded that
> vforking within a cloned process can be achieved via putting the
> sleep_on in the task structure. I'm going to be working on this
> tonight and I'll see what I can do.
I do think a sempahore would be appropriate to avoid the
possibility of recursion.
Last time I checked BSD doesn't even fully handle the recursive
vfork() case, and thus we should not need to either. Just make sure
the kernel retains it's own internal integrity in such a case, nothing
more.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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