Linux i386 clone(): %ebx 'frobbing' ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

Dunno what this had to do with lkml...

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:42:28PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> I don't understand how the `fn' argument reached the child thread
> in the %ebx register. It's said in the comment that `fn' will be
> popped to child 'in the ebx frobbing below'. But what does that mean ?

After the int 0x80 the next instructions run once in the parent on the
parent stack and once in the child on the child stack.  That pops
%ebx.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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