[uClibc]clone system call?

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Tue Jun 26 18:19:46 UTC 2001


On Tue Jun 26, 2001 at 11:15:15AM -0700, Steve Thayer wrote:
> Is anybody working on this?  I tried putting clone.S back into

Not me.  I've got other fish I'm frying.  :-)

> the makefile, just to see what would happen.  It didn't compile.
> (Which is probably why it was commented out in the first place. :)
> Is there work being done on this?  Can I instead use the uClinux
> implementation by just adding the _syscall to syscalls.c, or is
> there a problem with that?  Any insight would be appreciated, since
> this is currently holding me up.  Thanks!

it looks like the clone syscall messes with the stack in all
sorts of strange ways, so using syscalls.c to to add it isn't
likely to work very well...

 -Erik

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