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From: Dan Sturtevant <sturtx@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fork/clone external to a process?
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:49:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d92433304122107491b8b624a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Is there any clean way to fork a process from outside the process itself?

I'm running a commercial application that I only have a binary copy
of.  All the usual Posix fork stuff only works from inside the running
process.

Is there any reason it's not possible to do so?  Obviously threading
and file desciptors open a whole can of worms, but in the base case,
is it possible?

Thanks in advance, and sorry if it's a stupid question.

Dan Sturtevant

             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-21 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-21 15:49 Dan Sturtevant [this message]
2004-12-21 23:26 ` fork/clone external to a process? Pjotr Kourzanov
2004-12-22  0:36   ` Dan Sturtevant
     [not found]     ` <41C936AF.7060707@xs4all.nl>
2004-12-22 13:50       ` Dan Sturtevant
2004-12-25 22:26     ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-24  0:01       ` Dan Sturtevant

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