Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0

[H. Peter Anvin]

David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On 13 Aug 2002 12:52:11 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <[e-mail]> 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