* Ketan Mukadam (ketan@iitk.ac.in) wrote: > > But how does child gets a return value of zero? see copy_thread(). i386, for example, does 'childregs->eax = 0;' where eax is the register that contains the return value when returning to userspace. -chris -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/