On Middeweken 15 Juni 2005 10:17, Roy Lee wrote:
> is this means the library calls no more wrap the sys_clone() for the
> three library call(fork,vfork,clone), but
> call the corresponding syscall? or it never did that?
The sys_vfork and sys_fork entry points are there so old libc versions
can still work. Some architectures that were added after sys_clone
was introduced wrongly copied this code, but new architectures that
get added should just provide sys_clone and have the other calls
implemented as wrappers in libc.
Arnd <><
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