Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - please don't introduce a new pointer, just use the old one. There
> appears to be no cases where you want to have different pointers
> anyway.
Although I could imagine a possible situation where this might be useful
I haven't had the need. And not adding a new pointer means that
clone() on x86 has a parameter register left which might be important in
future.
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