Re: [patch] x86 clone() speedup, 2.1.90-pre2

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:06:59 +0100

> Why is the I/O bitmap clearing done by fork/clone as opposed to
> exec()? Maybe we should introduce a clone() flag to inherit (copy)

Why should exec() clear the I/O permissions? Look at
<http://www.inka.de/~bigred/sw/ioperm.txt> why it should not. ;-)

olaf

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