From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:25:49 -0400 From: rob@plan9.bell-labs.com rob@plan9.bell-labs.com Subject: [9fans] Re: bug in aux/listen Topicbox-Message-UUID: 66b37acc-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19970916192549.45nJe6ep4habxLVsm8KKnvQA16HCJlYpmPvUHInQ370@z> > Going through some old stuff and I found this one. I think you > are miss reading the above line from rfork(2). I think it is > saying that subsequent forks by the *parent*, if called with RFMEM, > will share data and bss between children of the *parent*. Subsequent > forks of the children are not affected unless they too do a RFMEM. The flag gets set on the segment, not the process. Any process created with that segment mapped will see the same segment. -rob