Subject: Re: Why no /usr/include/sys/kthread.h?
To: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@pgh.net>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/05/2000 16:29:27
In message <Pine.BSI.3.96.1000605173502.28720A-100000@doit.pgh.net>,
Matthew Orgass writes:

>  I hope this makes it in 1.5.  I think it would be a good idea to also
>implement rfork, though. 

You mean the 10th. Ed/Plan-9 style rfork()?
How much extant code acutally uses it?


I think it'd cool to have a freebsd-style rfork() as well, to complete
freebsd binary compatibility. I haven't looked since january, but I
think we can do that the same way we handle Linux clone().

(i.e., we don't have to provide it to userlevel as natively something
called rfork(), but there is a case for emulating what FreeBSD does).