>>>>> 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.
--david
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