From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: retry of clone() on Alpha can result in zeroed process thread pointer
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:30:44 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D947E4.7020305@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140723085244.GB4799@omega>
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~
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-30 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 8:52 Bug: retry of clone() on Alpha can result in zeroed process thread pointer Michael Cree
2014-07-24 18:19 ` Richard Henderson
2014-07-24 19:30 ` Michael Cree
2014-07-29 22:23 ` Richard Henderson
2014-07-30 4:51 ` Michael Cree
2014-07-30 17:56 ` Richard Henderson
2014-07-30 19:30 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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