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>>>>> On 13 Aug 2002 12:52:11 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:

  >> The clone() system call cannot be used by portable applications
  >> *AT ALL*, since it inherently needs a user-space assembly
  >> wrapper.  It's just a matter of how you define the interface to
  >> the assembly wrapper.

The function call issue is a separate question though.  If you want to
argue that the libc clone() wrapper is broken, fine by me.  (BTW:
wasn't that you who complained about platform-specific Linux syscalls
recently? ;-)

	--david
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