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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] clone syscall fix
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Thiemo Seufer |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] clone syscall fix |
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Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:21:04 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Stuart Anderson wrote:
>
> Even though clone() and fork() are related, they don't seem to be close
> enough to allow a single routine to be used to implement both. With this
> patch, the LTP tests for clone now pass.
But it still does the same, assuming VM_CLONE is set, except for passing
additional arguments to the host call. Passing untranslated regs looks
like a bug to me, I'm unsure about the tls_val.
> It may be possible to fold this back into do_fork(), but this just seemed to
> be a little bit more straightforward.
Since Linux's fork() is just a specialcase of clone() this should be
done eventually.
Thiemo