Provide pthread_atfork-friendly interfaces

[urcu.git] / README

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@@ -204,3 +204,7 @@ Interaction with fork()
        liburcu-bp, which is designed to handle fork() by calling
        rcu_bp_before_fork, rcu_bp_after_fork_parent and
        rcu_bp_after_fork_child.
+
+       Applications that use call_rcu() are required to invoke
+       call_rcu_after_fork_child() from the child process after a
+       successful fork() system call that is not followed by exec().