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Linux Kernel to Fork?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the remember-when-the-kernel-spooned dept.

Ninjy writes "Techworld has a story up about the possibility of the 2.7 kernel forking to accomodate large patch sets. Will this actually happen, and will the community back such a decision? "

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  1. Kernel forking by YetAnotherName · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the kernel itself to support fork(2), you'd have to have a meta-OS running the kernel, similar to a supervisor OS running as a user task in Mach.

    But I can see things deteriorating rapidly: someone will want vfork for kernels, someone else will implement kernel-to-kernel pipes, someone else will make vfork obsolete, someone will complain about kernels not getting SIGCHLDs from their child kernels, etc.

    What? No, of I course I didn't read the fsck'n article ... not even the summary!