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+/* Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Contributed by Richard Henderson (rth@tamu.edu)
+
+The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+Library General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
+not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
+Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
+
+/* clone() is even more special than fork() as it mucks with stacks
+ and invokes a function in the right context after its all over. */
+
+#include <sysdep.h>
+#include <errnos.h>
+
+/* int clone(int (*fn)(), void *child_stack, int flags, int nargs, ...) */
+
+ .text
+ENTRY(__clone)
+ /* Sanity check arguments. */
+ movl $-EINVAL,%eax
+ movl 4(%esp),%ecx /* no NULL function pointers */
+ testl %ecx,%ecx
+ jz syscall_error
+ movl 8(%esp),%ecx /* no NULL stack pointers */
+ testl %ecx,%ecx
+ jz syscall_error
+ movl 16(%esp),%edx /* no negative argument counts */
+ testl %edx,%edx
+ js syscall_error
+
+ /* Allocate space on the new stack and copy args over */
+ movl %edx,%eax
+ negl %eax
+ lea -4(%ecx,%eax,4),%ecx
+ jz 2f
+1: movl 16(%esp,%edx,4),%eax
+ movl %eax,0(%ecx,%edx,4)
+ dec %edx
+ jnz 1b
+2:
+ /* Save the function pointer as the zeroth argument.
+ It will be popped off in the child in the ebx frobbing below. */
+ movl 4(%esp),%eax
+ movl %eax,0(%ecx)
+
+ /* Do the system call */
+ pushl %ebx
+ movl 16(%esp),%ebx
+ movl $SYS_ify(clone),%eax
+ int $0x80
+ popl %ebx
+
+ test %eax,%eax
+ jl syscall_error
+ jz thread_start
+
+ ret
+
+ SYSCALL_ERROR_HANDLER
+
+thread_start:
+ subl %ebp,%ebp /* terminate the stack frame */
+ call *%ebx
+#ifdef PIC
+ call _exit@PLT
+#else
+ call _exit
+#endif
+
+weak_alias(__clone, clone)