Review request for 5049299

[Michael McMahon]

Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 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.
>   
That doesn't help, I've tried it. It seems to be a CLONE_VM problem.

Michael.