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

Fri Feb 15 23:28:00 GMT 2008

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 ?

See "popl %ebx" after "int $0x80".

Andreas.

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