[openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 RC7 fork() issue.

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Oct 17 06:57:58 PDT 2006


Quoting r. glebn at voltaire.com <glebn at voltaire.com>:
> > From the OFED release notes:
> > 
> > 3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided that
> >   applications do not use threads. Only system() or fork() and immediate
> >   exec() are supported.
> > 
> system() works because parent calls wait(). fork() and immediate exec()
> may very well fail. I propose to fix the release notes.

Correct, makes sense.

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MST




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