Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:02 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 |
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David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>>On 13 Aug 2002 12:52:11 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said: >>>>> > > >> The clone() system call cannot be used by portable applications > >> *AT ALL*, since it inherently needs a user-space assembly > >> wrapper. It's just a matter of how you define the interface to > >> the assembly wrapper. > > The function call issue is a separate question though. If you want to > argue that the libc clone() wrapper is broken, fine by me. (BTW: > wasn't that you who complained about platform-specific Linux syscalls > recently? ;-) >
I was, however, the flaws that you complained of had nothing to do with the syscall -- it's all in the syscall wrapper (which is required for clone(), like it or not.)
-hpa
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