Review request for 5049299

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Tue Jun 23 14:51:26 UTC 2009


On Jun 23,  3:33pm, aph at redhat.com (Andrew Haley) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Review request for 5049299

| I can debug this.
| 
| Please try first syscall(SYS_clone ...) to bypass the libc gubbins.
| That might be all you need.  If that doesn't help I'll have a look.
| 
| Isn't there some point at which you have to say to a Linux user "Your
| system is simply misconfigured.  Fix the overcommit parameter and this
| problem will go away"  ?

Another thing to try is to add CLONE_VFORK to suspend the parent.

christos



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