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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Randolph Fritz <randolph@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Cross-platform
Date: Tue,  2 Jan 2001 17:51:09 +0000
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On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:33:05 GMT, Russ Cox <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>
>the scripts that do everything require
>byron rakitzis's rc and the inferno mk,
>but it'd be nice to do without them.
>rfork(RFMEM) is the sticking point, if i
>remember correctly.
>

Newer (2.2/libc2) Linux kernels support an __clone() system call,
which could be used, so far as I can tell, to implement most of
rfork().  Of course, one would also have to port any necessary
synchronization primitives.

Randolph