fork.c revision 9acbbeaf2a1ffe5c14b244867d427714fab43c5c
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/*
* Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* Use is subject to license terms.
*/
#pragma ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI"
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/lx_misc.h>
/*
* fork() and vfork()
*
* These cannot be pass thru system calls because we need libc to do its own
* initialization or else bad things will happen (i.e. ending up with a bad
* schedctl page). On Linux, there is no such thing as forkall(), so we use
* fork1() here.
*/
int
lx_fork(void)
{
int ret = fork1();
return (ret == -1 ? -errno : ret);
}
/*
* For vfork(), we have a serious problem because the child is not allowed to
* return from the current frame because it will corrupt the parent's stack.
* Since the semantics of vfork() are rather ill-defined (other than "it's
* faster than fork"), we should theoretically be safe by falling back to
* fork1().
*/
int
lx_vfork(void)
{
int ret = fork1();
return (ret == -1 ? -errno : ret);
}