clone was never used in a released jdk. I would leave the internal docs. I left them in on purpose, because it was not at all obvious why we chose not to use clone.
I'm especially fond of - * On Linux, one might think that vfork() would be implemented using - * the clone system call with flag CLONE_VFORK, but in fact vfork is - * a separate system call (which is a good sign, suggesting that - * vfork will continue to be supported at least on Linux). Deleting the implementation using clone is a better idea; it's easy to resurrect in the unlikely case someone will want to. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Roger Riggs <[email protected]> wrote: > At one time clone() was used on Unix to spawn processes but no more. > Please review the cleanup of now dead code. > > Webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs//webrev-clone-7021006 > > Issue: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7021006 > > Thanks, Roger > >
