From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: getpid/vfork broken
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040309035054.GA26769@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <404D2619.6050005@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:04:09PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> No. There is a reason why a vfork syscall was introduced. There aren't
> enough registers to use clone and hold the return address.
On x86, perhaps. The rest can do so.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-09 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-07 23:18 Andreas Schwab
2004-03-07 23:30 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-08 2:22 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-08 2:28 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-08 2:37 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-08 13:10 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-09 1:28 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-09 2:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-09 3:50 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2004-03-09 7:48 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-09 13:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-09 13:59 ` [PATCH] getpid/vfork/raise fix Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-09 16:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-09 19:38 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 5:53 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-10 10:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-10 12:24 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-10 15:01 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 15:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-10 16:56 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 17:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 17:45 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 18:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 19:24 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 18:44 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-10 19:18 ` [PATCH] IA-64 pt-vfork fix Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 23:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
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