Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:19:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 |
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>>>>> 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? ;-)
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