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Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 07:49:50PM -0400, Russell Leighton wrote:
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> 
>> >Note also that
>> >
>> >clone() is not a portable interface even within linux architectures.
>> >
>> > 
>> >
>> Really???!!! How so?
>
> for example ia64 doesn't have it.

Then what is the sys_clone2 implementation in arch/is64/kernel/entry.S for?

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