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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:19:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] threading fix, tid-2.5.47-A3
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Why not do it the _sane_ way, with a system call in crt0.S instead to
> set up the user_tid if you want it?

the patch adds a syscall, which will indeed be used in the exec() case.  
The patch does not add any magic execve() thing. Plus the patch changes
the TID interfaces of sys_clone() to work not only for pthread_create()
but also in the case of fork().

	Ingo


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