usr/src/lib/brand/lx/lx_brand/common/fork.c
author nn35248
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:07:59 -0700
changeset 2949 5581081d0989
parent 2712 f74a135872bc
child 2965 04989c63dc28
permissions -rw-r--r--
6481326 lx zone install sometimes hangs

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/*
 * Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * Use is subject to license terms.
 */

#pragma ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"

#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/lx_misc.h>

/*
 * fork() and vfork()
 *
 * These cannot be pass thru system calls because we need libc to do its own
 * initialization or else bad things will happen (i.e. ending up with a bad
 * schedctl page).  On Linux, there is no such thing as forkall(), so we use
 * fork1() here.
 */
int
lx_fork(void)
{
	int ret = fork1();

	if (ret == 0 && lx_is_rpm)
		sleep(lx_rpm_delay);

	return (ret == -1 ? -errno : ret);
}

/*
 * For vfork(), we have a serious problem because the child is not allowed to
 * return from the current frame because it will corrupt the parent's stack.
 * Since the semantics of vfork() are rather ill-defined (other than "it's
 * faster than fork"), we should theoretically be safe by falling back to
 * fork1().
 */
int
lx_vfork(void)
{
	int ret = fork1();

	return (ret == -1 ? -errno : ret);
}