> Instead let the user initialize the memory location the clone call is
> supposed to write in with zero. if the value didn't change the
> user-level code can detect the error and handle appropriately.
Does that work? Zero is also read if the child was created, did
something, and exited with CLEARTID.
You can initialise it with -1, though.
-- Jamie
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