Re: safe usage of clone() ?

From: Aaron Denney (wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 13:12:55 EST


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:04:17 +0100, Frederick Barnes <frmb2@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've got a program which creates 10 clone()s of itself, sharing
> VM, FS info and file descriptors (CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES).
...
> it segfaults.
>
> The problem could well be in my code, but I've not spotted it yet.
> If anybody has any ideas as to what the problem might be, I'd be
> most grateful, cos it's giving me headaches.

Sharing VM includes sharing stack. Are you setting up seperate stacks
for the seperate tasks?

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Aaron Denney
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