Re: [GIT]: Sparc

[David Miller]

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:06:29 -0700 (PDT)

> On Wed, 7 May 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > 1) If fork/clone/etc. errors, argument register %o2 is clobbered
> >    breaking syscall restart.
> 
> Wow. Do we actually restart fork/clone/etc? That sounds suspicious. Maybe 
> there is some other bug here?

do_fork() checks for signals, and returns -ERESTARTNOINTR right
before fully committing itself to the operation.
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