Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:15:44 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 September 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Let's just make it another system call. It doesn't have any downside > that I can see, might prevent problems, and avoids setting a bad > precedent that someone can misinterpret.
One more argument for this is that the new code is architecture independent using user_stack_pointer(), while the original sys_clone is highly architecture specific, which is a source for bugs when trying to extend it.
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