Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:42:24 -0700 | Subject | Re: Using getpid() often, another way? [was Re: clone() <-> getpid() bug in 2.6?] |
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>>>>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:00:09 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:
Christoph> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:48:31PM +0100, Sean Neakums Christoph> wrote: >> > for example ia64 doesn't have it.
>> Then what is the sys_clone2 implementation in >> arch/is64/kernel/entry.S for?
Christoph> It's clone with a slightly different calling convention.
Note that the only difference is that the stack-area is expressed as a range (starting-address + size), rather than a direct stack-pointer value. IMHO, it was a mistake to not do it that way right from the beginning (consider that different arches grow stacks in different directions, for example).
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