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| author | markj <markj@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-05-02 00:29:27 +0000 |
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| committer | markj <markj@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-05-02 00:29:27 +0000 |
| commit | 3af77c482a32d6774972e1313d176d4866d06992 (patch) | |
| tree | ed1a4781fd16da8d81de5e2c0b822e82646fbe1a /lib | |
| parent | 91f7fc5d99062167bf493b6cfc01aed2117078d8 (diff) | |
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fork(2): Add a note to the effect that kqueue descriptors, unlike other
descriptor types, are not inherited from the parent process.
Reported by: kmacy
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/fork.2 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/fork.2 b/lib/libc/sys/fork.2 index 1ad2052f..4fda74d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/fork.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/fork.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)fork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 31, 2013 +.Dd May 1, 2015 .Dt FORK 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ The child process has a unique process ID. The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process). .It -The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors. +The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors, +except for descriptors returned by +.Xr kqueue 2 , +which are not inherited from the parent process. These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that, for instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an |
