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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arch-fork.h27
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 2014-05-16  Roland McGrath  <roland@hack.frob.com>
 
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arch-fork.h: New file.
 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/fork.h: Moved ...
 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/arch-fork.h: ... here.
 	Don't do #include_next.
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arch-fork.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arch-fork.h
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+/* ARCH_FORK definition for Linux fork implementation.  Stub version.
+   Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 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
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* This file should define the function-like macro of no arguments
+   ARCH_FORK to an INLINE_SYSCALL invocation of the clone-like system
+   call, passing the CLONE_CHILD_SETTID and CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flags
+   and &THREAD_SELF->tid as the TID address.
+
+   Machines that lack an arch-fork.h header file will hit an #error in
+   fork.c; this stub file doesn't contain an #error itself mainly for
+   the transition period of migrating old machine-specific fork.c files
+   to machine-specific arch-fork.h instead.  */