/* 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 #include /* 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 .size __clone,.-__clone SYSCALL_ERROR_HANDLER thread_start: subl %ebp,%ebp /* terminate the stack frame */ call *%ebx pushl %eax #ifdef PIC call _exit@PLT #else call _exit #endif weak_alias(__clone, clone)