On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:11 PM, John David Anglin <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> No, sadly it didn't fixed it. > > I tend to think clone/fork syscalls need to be guarded to ensure a stable > configuration while the syscall executes. It may be the problem arises > because we use clone for fork. Do any other targets do this? All targets call nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c, which calls ARCH_FORK, which is implemented using clone() for *all* targets. In fact, owing to the POSIX atfork requirements, it's very difficult to implement fork properly without using Linux clone. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html