Re: Cloning

Philippe Strauss (root@urbanet.ch)
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 02:54:35 +0200

Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
> >
> > I wrote a small program to test the clone() thing. (BTW the
> > manpage I have doesn't have any of the right names for
> > constants, etc.) It won't link ... I assume that I need to
> > recompile libc to include support for clone, but I am looking at
> > the source, and I don't see any switches. There does seem to be
> > a clone defined, but only in the asm-ppc directory ... This is
> > with libc-5.2.18.

> I'd suggest people also take a look at the (beta) pthreads library that
> somebody wrote on top of clone() (the announcement is probably still in
> comp.os.linux.announce if you have a reasonable news spool). That is
> probably actually useful, unlike my minimal example.
>
> Linus

Xavier Leroy is the author of the threads lib atop of clone, you can
find the sources at http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/

-- 
Philippe Strauss, CH-1092 Belmont
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