[PATCH 1/2] tools/nolibc: Provide vfork()

Thomas Weißschuh linux at weissschuh.net
Mon Jun 9 08:34:33 PDT 2025


Small followup review, sorry for the noise.

On 2025-06-09 16:08:56+0100, Mark Brown wrote:
<snip>

> +#ifndef sys_vfork

This ifndef is not necessary here.
No architecture has a special version.

> +static __attribute__((unused))
> +pid_t sys_vfork(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef __NR_vfork

For consistency:
#if defined(__NR_vfork)

> +	return my_syscall0(__NR_vfork);
> +#elif defined(__NR_clone3)
> +	/*
> +	 * clone() could be used but has different argument orders per
> +	 * architecture.
> +	 */
> +	struct clone_args args = {
> +		.flags		= CLONE_VM | CLONE_VFORK,
> +		.exit_signal	= SIGCHLD,
> +	};
> +
> +	return my_syscall2(__NR_clone3, &args, sizeof(args));
> +#else
> +	return __nolibc_enosys(__func__);
> +#endif
> +}
> +#endif



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