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173 lines
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.\"
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.\" This manual page is taken directly from Plan9, and modified to
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.\" describe the actual BSD implementation. Permission for
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.\" use of this page comes from Rob Pike <rob@plan9.att.com>.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd January 12, 1996
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.Dt RFORK 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm rfork
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.Nd manipulate process resources
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn rfork "int flags"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Forking, vforking or rforking are the only ways new processes are created.
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The
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.Fa flags
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argument to
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.Fn rfork
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selects which resources of the
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invoking process (parent) are shared
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by the new process (child) or initialized to
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their default values.
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The resources include
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the open file descriptor table (which, when shared, permits processes
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to open and close files for other processes),
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and open files.
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.Fa Flags
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is the logical OR of some subset of:
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.Bl -tag -width "RFCNAMEG" -compact -offset indent
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.It RFPROC
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If set a new process is created; otherwise changes affect the
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current process.
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The current implementation requires this flag to always be set.
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.It RFNOWAIT
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If set, the child process will be dissociated from the parent.
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Upon
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exit the child will not leave a status for the parent to collect.
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See
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.Xr wait 2 .
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.It RFFDG
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If set, the invoker's file descriptor table (see
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.Xr intro 2 )
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is copied; otherwise the two processes share a
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single table.
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.It RFCFDG
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If set, the new process starts with a clean file descriptor table.
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Is mutually exclusive with
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.Dv RFFDG .
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.It RFMEM
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If set, the kernel will force sharing of the entire address space,
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typically by sharing the hardware page table directly.
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The child
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will thus inherit and share all the segments the parent process owns,
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whether they are normally shareable or not. The stack segment is
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not split (both the parent and child return on the same stack) and thus
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.Fn rfork
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with the RFMEM flag may not generally be called directly from high level
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languages including C.
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May be set only with
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.Dv RFPROC .
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A helper function is provided to assist with this problem and will cause
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the new process to run on the provided stack. See
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.Fn rfork_thread 3
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for information.
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.It RFSIGSHARE
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If set, the kernel will force sharing the sigacts structure between the
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child and the parent.
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.It RFLINUXTHPN
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If set, the kernel will return SIGUSR1 instead of SIGCHILD upon thread
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exit for the child. This is intended to mimic certain Linux clone behaviour.
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.El
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.Pp
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File descriptors in a shared file descriptor table are kept
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open until either they are explicitly closed
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or all processes sharing the table exit.
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.Pp
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If
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.Dv RFPROC
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is set, the
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value returned in the parent process
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is the process id
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of the child process; the value returned in the child is zero.
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Without
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.Dv RFPROC ,
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the return value is zero.
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Process id's range from 1 to the maximum integer
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.Ft ( int )
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value.
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.Fn Rfork
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will sleep, if necessary, until required process resources are available.
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.Pp
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.Fn Fork
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can be implemented as a call to
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.Fn rfork "RFFDG | RFPROC"
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but isn't for backwards compatibility.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion,
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.Fn rfork
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returns a value
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of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child
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process to the parent process. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned
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to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global
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variable
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn Rfork
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will fail and no child process will be created if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EAGAIN
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The system-imposed limit on the total
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number of processes under execution would be exceeded.
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The limit is given by the
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.Xr sysctl 3
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MIB variable
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.Dv KERN_MAXPROC .
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(The limit is actually one less than this
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except for the super user).
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.It Bq Er EAGAIN
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The user is not the super user, and
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the system-imposed limit
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on the total number of
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processes under execution by a single user would be exceeded.
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The limit is given by the
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.Xr sysctl 3
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MIB variable
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.Dv KERN_MAXPROCPERUID .
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.It Bq Er EAGAIN
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The user is not the super user, and
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the soft resource limit corresponding to the resource parameter
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.Dv RLIMIT_NOFILE
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would be exceeded (see
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.Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The RFPROC flag was not specified.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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Both the RFFDG and the RFCFDG flags were specified.
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.It Bq Er ENOMEM
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There is insufficient swap space for the new process.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr intro 2 ,
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.Xr minherit 2 ,
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.Xr vfork 2 ,
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.Xr rfork_thread 3
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.Sh BUGS
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.Fx
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does not yet implement a native
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.Fn clone
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library call, and the current pthreads implementation does not use
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.Fn rfork
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with RFMEM. A native port of the linux threads library,
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.Pa /usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads ,
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contains a working
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.Fn clone
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call that utilizes RFMEM.
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The
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.Fn rfork_thread
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library call can often be used instead of
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.Fn clone .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn rfork
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function call first appeared in Plan9.
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