Re: [patch] threading fix, tid-2.5.47-A3

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 23:31:04 EST


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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> - please don't introduce a new pointer, just use the old one. There
> appears to be no cases where you want to have different pointers
> anyway.

Although I could imagine a possible situation where this might be useful
 I haven't had the need. And not adding a new pointer means that
clone() on x86 has a parameter register left which might be important in
future.

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