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- ; From the mintlib.
- ;
- ; vfork for MiNT. Note that the return address must be popped off the stack,
- ; or else it could be clobbered by the child and the parent would be left
- ; returning to la-la land. Also note that MiNT guarantees that register a1
- ; will be preserved across a vfork() system call.
- ;
- .globl _vfork
- .globl ___mint ; MiNT version kept here
- .comm L_vfsav,128
- .text
- .even
- _vfork:
- move.l (sp)+,a1 ; save return address; this is important!
- tst.w ___mint
- beq L_TOS ; go do the TOS thing
- move.w #$113,-(sp) ; push MiNT Pvfork() parameter
- trap #1 ; Vfork
- addq.l #2,sp
- tst.l d0 ; error??
- bmi L_err
- jmp (a1) ; return
- L_TOS:
- movem.l d2-d7/a1-a6,L_vfsav ; save registers
- pea L_vfsav
- pea L_newprog
- jsr _tfork ; tfork(L_newprog, L_vfsav)
- lea 8(sp),sp
- movem.l L_vfsav,d2-d7/a1-a6 ; restore reggies
- tst.l d0 ; fork went OK??
- bmi L_err ; no -- error
- jmp (a1) ; return to caller
- L_err:
- neg.l d0
- move.w d0,_errno ; save error code in errno
- moveq.l #-1,d0 ; return -1
- jmp (a1) ; return
-
- ;
- ; L_newprog: here is where the child starts executing, with argument
- ; L_vfsav. We restore registers, zero d0, and jump back to parent
- ;
-
- L_newprog:
- addq.l #4,sp ; pop useless return address
- move.l (sp)+,a0 ; get address of save area
- movem.l (a0),d2-d7/a1-a6 ; restore reggies
- clr.l d0 ; child always returns 0 from vfork
- jmp (a1) ; back to caller, as child process
-