From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH(?): linux-2.4.4-pre2: fork should run child first
Date: 13 Apr 2001 19:52:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ae5kkxax.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104131925370.11761-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:29:20 -0700 (PDT)"
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> spawn() is trivial to implement if you want to. I don't think it's all
> that much more interesting than vfork()+execve(), though.
spawn() (actually posix_spawn) is currently implemented in the libc.
If anybody for whatever reason thinks it is necessary to implement
this in the kernel look at the interface. It is really only
interesting for systems with limited VMs but it would be trivial to
add another flag which allow different scheduling characteristics
which some people apparently want.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-13 23:51 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14 1:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-14 2:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 2:51 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-14 2:52 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
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2001-04-14 16:11 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14 7:58 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-14 8:42 ` Michael O'Reilly
2001-04-14 9:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 15:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-14 2:45 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-13 16:28 Hubertus Franke
2001-04-12 19:45 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:15 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 13:44 Hubertus Franke
2001-04-12 8:55 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 12:38 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-17 9:15 ` Éric Brunet
2001-04-17 14:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 15:32 ` Éric Brunet
2001-04-13 21:08 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-14 3:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-14 4:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-14 13:35 ` Rik van Riel
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