[openib-general] [PATCH/RFC] libibverbs and libmthca fork support

[Ralph Campbell]

This is the sort of thing that needs to be clearly documented
for the library.  We currently don't have a useable set of
documents (some collection of reading the code and the IB spec.).

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 16:50 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> I guess this is pretty uncontroversial, so I'll check this in
> tomorrow.  But one last call for comments: in particular, does anyone
> object to libibverbs being fork-unsafe by default unless ibv_fork_init
> is called?
> 
>  > +/**
>  > + * ibv_fork_init - Prepare data structures so that fork() may be used
>  > + * safely.  If this function is not called or returns a non-zero
>  > + * status, then libibverbs data structures are not fork()-safe and the
>  > + * effect of an application calling fork() is undefined.
>  > + */
>  > +int ibv_fork_init(void);
> 
>  - R.
> 
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