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

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:57:34 -0700


David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:02 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:
>>>>>
>
> >> 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.)
>
> The issue is not whether a wrapper is needed or not.
>
> My point is that it is cleaner to always describe stack areas as
> memory areas (e.g., as a base/size pair). Note that this is
> effectively what's happening in the platform-independent part of the
> kernel today.
>

Right, but all the stack handling is a matter of the wrapper. sys_clone
doesn't affect the stack at all.

-hpa

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