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What do the individual flags mean and do in clone()?

The clone() system call has several flags that will indicate how muchwill be shared between threads. Below you will find a table listing eachflag, its function & its implementation status.

Flag	Status	Description
CLONE_VM	Done	Share data and stack
CLONE_FS	Done	Share filesystem info
CLONE_FILES	Done	Share open files
CLONE_SIGHAND	Done	Share signals
CLONE_PID	Almost Done	Share PID with parent (problems with /proc and signals go to parent)


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