From: Rob McCool 
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: fork1() simulation on SGI 2.0 NSAPI
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:52:13 -0800

Prasanna Gopinath wrote:
> 
> I am trying  to simulate fork1() on SGI. Please recall that fork1()
> duplicates only calling thread in the child process. I saw
> a simiar call in daemon.h --> child_fork()
> 
> /*
>  * fork is a wrapper for the system's fork function. This closes the
> listen
>  * socket for the mob. This also makes sure that a threaded daemon only
> gets
>  * the calling thread and not all of them.
>  */
> 
> NSAPI_PUBLIC pid_t child_fork(void);
> 
> My question is it possible to get the same behaviour as fork1() on
> Solaris by just replacing fork() with child_fork()??.
> 
> OR is there any mechanism on SGI by which I can do it?

Yes, child_fork() should do what you want. 
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