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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: getpid/vfork broken
In-Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek's message of  Monday, 8 March 2004 12:01:05 +0100 <20040308110105.GN3822@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
X-Windows: flawed beyond belief.
X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2

In NPTL-supporting Linux kernels (2.6), I think we can just use the clone
syscall with CLONE_VFORK|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID.