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~ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html