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    Protect fork() and clone() behind a rwlock. · e0a38117
    Jacob Lorentzon authored
    rlct_clone will acquire a read lock, whereas fork will acquire a write
    lock. The write lock is necessary because the fork will clone the file
    table, which would result in other threads' fork/clone file descriptors
    not being closed. If an address space switch fd never gets closed, fork
    child processes and new threads, may never switch address spaces before
    they are started, which has resulted in hard-to-debug RIP=0 instr fetch
    page faults.
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