[uClinux-dev] Re: fork on uClinux

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:

> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Alexander Krause wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > > Does anyone on the busybox mailing list actively test/develop on uClinux?
> > yes, i'm using a fully x86 gentoo based on uclibc-0.9.28.
> 
> uClinux (MMU-less) != uClibc
> 
> > 
> > As said before init() works without any busybox patches and it looks like 
> > they've implemented/copied it (not just an alias to vfork).
> > 
> > See uClibc-0.9.28/libpthread/linuxthreads/ptfork.c .
> 
> that linuxthreads version is not working (and I doubt it will ever work 
> like that on MMU-less archs)

sorry, correction, that code is guarded by ARCH_HAS_MMU, so unrelevant for 
uClinux

Peter
> 
> > I've attached a example in c which works for me (found on the uclibc 
> > maillist).
> > 
> > cheers Alex
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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