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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: Bug: retry of clone() on Alpha can result in zeroed process thread
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:30:44 -1000
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To: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Ok, I think I've actually found it this time.  It's here:

> 281		childregs->r20 = 1;	/* OSF/1 has some strange fork() semantics.  */
> 282		regs->r20 = 0;

We need to delay this r20 silliness until after restarts or something.  Or just
kill it -- it's not like glibc uses this return value.


r~