Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] nptl/sys_clone fix for i386/ppc

[BlaisorBlade]

On Monday 13 September 2004 05:10, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:52:44PM +0200, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> > It worked no worse than current version (which is broken). In fact the
> > 2.4 clone had 2 arguments. So it's obvious.
>
> In fact, it worked better.  It worked on a modern Debian filesystem, where
> my old code didn't.
Oh, well, your version gets the fifth arg right, indeed.
> > However, this is non-standard. I've added just a comment for now, since
> > you may have reason to keep the current code, but such behaviour calls
> > for breakage when things change.

> Yeah, I not sure why I did things the way I did.  That's very old code, and
> there may have been some good reason for it which has since disappeared.

> Offhand, it looks like doing things in the standard way will clean up
> copy_thread a bit.
I agree completely.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/