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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:57:34 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>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.
> 

Right, but all the stack handling is a matter of the wrapper.  sys_clone
doesn't affect the stack at all.

	-hpa


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