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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)