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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100 |
| commit | cd782d77c1e90976cb6dacf6ba78ba762f145a50 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b6ed292f3cc607dd43dfcc82044945f758d85f5 /glibc/fork.mdwn | |
| parent | b4a020824706ddfd9c1c38fb08d6935fa8e8cde3 (diff) | |
Been reading another LWN issue...
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| -rw-r--r-- | glibc/fork.mdwn | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/glibc/fork.mdwn b/glibc/fork.mdwn index e8556a91..378fe835 100644 --- a/glibc/fork.mdwn +++ b/glibc/fork.mdwn @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Our implementation in [[glibc]] is and needs to be rather bulky. For example, it has to duplicate all port rights for the new [[Mach task|microkernel/mach/task]]. The address space can simply be duplicated by -standard means of the [[microkernel/Mach]], but as [[file descriptor]]s (for -example) are a concept that is implemented inside [[glibc]] (based on [[Mach -port|microkernel/mach/port]]s), these have to be duplicated from userspace, -which requires a small number of [[RPC]] for each of them. +standard means of the [[microkernel/Mach]], but as [[unix/file_descriptor]]s +(for example) are a concept that is implemented inside [[glibc]] (based on +[[Mach port|microkernel/mach/port]]s), these have to be duplicated from +userspace, which requires a small number of [[RPC]] for each of them. In sum, [[this affects performance|open_issues/performance/fork]] when new processes are continuously being spawned from the shell, for example. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ they have patches for software packages, to avoid using `fork` followed by ([[!taglink open_issue_glibc]]). * Include de-duplicate information from elsewhere: [[hurd-paper]], - [[hurd-talk]] [[hurd/ng/trivialconfinementvsconstructorvsfork]], + [[hurd-talk]], [[hurd/ng/trivialconfinementvsconstructorvsfork]], [[open_issues/resource_management_problems/zalloc_panics]] ([[!taglink open_issue_glibc open_issue_documentation]]). @@ -54,13 +54,11 @@ they have patches for software packages, to avoid using `fork` followed by ## Related - * [[secure file descriptor handling]]. + * [[open_issues/secure_file_descriptor_handling]]. # External - * [*How fork(2) ought to be*](http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/fork.html) by - Richard Kettlewell. + * {{$unix#djb_self-pipe}}. - * [*The self-pipe trick*](http://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.html) by - D. J. Bernstein. + * {{$unix#rjk_fork}}. |