On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > [...] In which case we sure as heck don't want the original child to
> > modify the VM that it now shares with a subthread.
>
> in what way is clone() utilized? if it's via any threading library then
> the fork()-ed process has its own thread state, which must be freed when
> exiting.
See this:
process X
fork()
-------> Process Y
clone()
----> thread Z
exit()
THIS MUST NOT
WRITE TO MEMORY
IN Z!!
Notice how the exit() in Y will never be able to write into the address
space of X - it would only write into the address space of Z, and Z is not
expecting that at all!
Linus
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