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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:10:29 -0700
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@checker.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rfork patch, please comment 
Message-ID:  <19991028181029.A85ED1FD7@io.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:54:07 %2B0200." <38188DBF.FCD05915@scc.nl> 

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> [No time yet to dig into this in more detail]
> 
> Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 
> > I've made a patch that adds linux 'clone' style support
> > to rfork, and I'd like to hear opinions on whether this
> > is an ok way to do it.
> 
> Does this improve the support for clone in the Linuxulator?

No, there is already some support there.  That's where I got the idea,
see /usr/src/sys/i386/linux/linux_misc.c:linux_clone.

What it does, as I see it, is open the door for native kernel
threads, which of course still requires a thread-safe libc.





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