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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Qemu user-mode - fork - exec -
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:58:26 +0000
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Cc: Toni <tonygio04@gmail.com>

On Monday 12 October 2009, Toni wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I found a solution for the problems with the fork and the exec under qemu
> user-mode.
> With the fork I enabled the NPTL and now it seems to work fine.
> For the exec the problem was that it was execute natively, and so the qemu
> process was killed by the exec, so I simply called the exec for a new
> instance of qemu, also this seems to work fine. Let me know what do you
> think:

It will break horribly for shell scripts, multi-arch systems, etc.
This is something the host kernel should really be taking care of.

Your patch also appears to have a load of unrelated cruft.

Paul