fork inside ip_input

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Jul 14 13:56:14 UTC 2006


Mykola Stryebkov wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>Have a strange question: is it possible to create new process (using
>fork or fork1) from inside of ip_input()?
>
>In kernel sources i found example of using fork1 in init_main.c but
>looking into ip_input.c i do not understand where i can get pointers to
>a thread and parent process to pass it into fork1.
>
>  
>


you want to create a new kernel thread..

look at kthread_{xxx}
use curthread as your thread.



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