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Re: [PATCH] IA64 extra clone2 flags

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: Ian Wienand <ianw at gelato dot unsw dot edu dot au>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:32:18 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64 extra clone2 flags
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <20030303005611.GC28848@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20030303221554.J1717@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

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Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> This argument certainly is not struct user_desc *, it is void *,
> actual thread pointer value.

Is it?  I haven't looked at the kernel.  From the non-kernel code I've
seen other archs seem to use user_desc now.  Maybe it was just that all
the people haven't looked closely.

> Ditto. Shouldn't the __clone2 prototype be using ... as well instead?

I've thought about this and thought extra parameter checking is good.
ut I forgot about this LinuxThreads mess which we cannot get rid if
right away...

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