Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:48:30 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: kernel_thread bogosity |
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:23:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > You see? Kernel_thread does not check is sys_clone() worked! Aha,
"=&a" (retval)
> caller is responsible for that, but init/main.c does not seem too > carefull. Maybe kernel_thread should at least print a warning?
If clone fails during start_kernel that's the last of your problems so nobody cared. If you want to add a check on the retval go ahead, that's right indeed.
> Plus, can someone explain me why it does not need to setup %%ecx with > either zero or address of stack?
Not necessary because a kernel thread never exit from kernel.
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