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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D596B96.4000305@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15705.27073.997831.983519@napali.hpl.hp.com

David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On 13 Aug 2002 12:52:11 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-13 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13 15:09 [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 16:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 18:32         ` [patch] CLONE_SETTLS, CLONE_SETTID, 2.5.31-BK Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 18:41           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:09             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:41               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-13 19:41                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 19:35             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-15 22:38           ` [patch] complain about unknown CLONE_* flags Jamie Lokier
2002-08-16 10:17             ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-02  5:55               ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-13 16:09   ` [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 Erik Andersen
2002-08-13 16:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-13 16:32       ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 16:44         ` John Levon
2002-08-13 19:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 20:19           ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:27             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-08-13 20:52               ` David Mosberger
2002-08-13 20:57                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-13 16:56       ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-08-13 17:42       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-13 17:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-13 20:35       ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-15 21:24         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-13 17:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-14 13:48     ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-14 18:47       ` Jamie Lokier

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