Re: [patch] threading fix, tid-2.5.47-A3

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:19:03 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Why not do it the _sane_ way, with a system call in crt0.S instead to
> set up the user_tid if you want it?

the patch adds a syscall, which will indeed be used in the exec() case.
The patch does not add any magic execve() thing. Plus the patch changes
the TID interfaces of sys_clone() to work not only for pthread_create()
but also in the case of fork().

Ingo

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