cvs commit: src/lib/libc/amd64/sys vfork.S

[Peter Wemm]

"Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote:
> In message <200304301813.h3UIDEKt020259 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm writ
    es
> :
> >peter       2003/04/30 11:13:14 PDT
> >
> >  FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    lib/libc/amd64/sys   vfork.S 
> >  Log:
> >  Update for AMD64 (repocopied from i386/sys/Ovfork.S - why is it O?)
> 
> "Old" I belive, weren't you around when we made vfork() do what the
> manual page had said all the time and everything from inetd to /bin/csh
> broke ?

Well yes, but it defines a function called "vfork", not "Ovfork".  Yes, I
remember the excitement it caused.

Incidently, we also have an 'obreak' syscall, which brk() and sbrk() call.
We don't actually use the sbrk(2) syscall - sbrk.S uses obreak(2).

Cheers,
-Peter
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