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Re: [PATCH roland/nptl] Clean up NPTL fork to be compat-only.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:31:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/nptl] Clean up NPTL fork to be compat-only.
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> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > +/* libpthread once had its own fork, though there was no apparent reason
> > + for it. There is no use in having a separate symbol in libpthread, but
> > + the historical ABI requires it. For static linking, there is no need to
> > + provide anything here--the libc version will be linked in. For shared
> > + library ABI compatibility, there must be __vfork and vfork symbols in
>
> __fork and fork not __vfork and vfork?
Oops! Yes. Fixed on the branch.
Thanks,
Roland