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Subject: Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0
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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:27:02 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:

  >> I was, however, the flaws that you complained of had nothing to
  >> do with the syscall -- it's all in the syscall wrapper (which is
  >> required for clone(), like it or not.)

The issue is not whether a wrapper is needed or not.

My point is that it is cleaner to always describe stack areas as
memory areas (e.g., as a base/size pair).  Note that this is
effectively what's happening in the platform-independent part of the
kernel today.

	--david
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