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I have a server process that forks many child processes. The server process has affinity to a CPU core, but I don't want that affinity to be inherited by child process (rather OS should handle where to run these processes). Is there a way to delink parent child processes with respect to cpu affinity?

Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事
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    If nothing else you could probably de-link the parent process before forking the child, and then re-link it again afterwards... – Jeremy Friesner Dec 01 '11 at 03:36

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You can call sched_setaffinity(2) with all bits set in CPU mask after the fork(2) and before the execve(2).

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