On Wednesday 30 September 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Let's just make it another system call. It doesn't have any downside > that I can see, might prevent problems, and avoids setting a bad > precedent that someone can misinterpret. One more argument for this is that the new code is architecture independent using user_stack_pointer(), while the original sys_clone is highly architecture specific, which is a source for bugs when trying to extend it. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
