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From: "Daniel 'NebuchadnezzaR' Dehennin" <sparc@asgardr.info>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:55:25 +0000
Subject: Re: clone return code
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Le 4599 Septembre 1993, David S. Miller a tapoté:
> The system call convention follows that of SunOS on which
> the syscall handling was based.  Return "1" in the %o1
> register in the child and "0" in the parent, and that's how
> the the call sites distinguish the two cases.

It's what I understand from arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c

> Why is this an issue?

It's not an issue anymore ;-) this behavior is handle now.

Thanks a lot.
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