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Unified Diff: sandbox/linux/services/syscall_wrappers.h

Issue 801033002: Use the libc clone wrapper in sys_clone. (Closed) Base URL: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git@master
Patch Set: Use macros from build_config.h Created 6 years ago
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Index: sandbox/linux/services/syscall_wrappers.h
diff --git a/sandbox/linux/services/syscall_wrappers.h b/sandbox/linux/services/syscall_wrappers.h
index 64028f7d0f6d61316566ad20b1f8a260128f3f8b..d2ee1028ce92ac6b8678b58a2f3ecd1b872e2422 100644
--- a/sandbox/linux/services/syscall_wrappers.h
+++ b/sandbox/linux/services/syscall_wrappers.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ namespace sandbox {
// Provide direct system call wrappers for a few common system calls.
// These are guaranteed to perform a system call and do not rely on things such
-// as caching the current pid (c.f. getpid()).
+// as caching the current pid (c.f. getpid()) unless otherwise specified.
SANDBOX_EXPORT pid_t sys_getpid(void);
@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ SANDBOX_EXPORT pid_t sys_gettid(void);
SANDBOX_EXPORT long sys_clone(unsigned long flags);
-// |regs| is not supported and must be passed as nullptr.
+// |regs| is not supported and must be passed as nullptr. |child_stack| must be
+// nullptr, since otherwise this function cannot safely return. As a
+// consequence, this function does not support CLONE_VM.
+//
+// This function uses the libc clone wrapper (which updates libc's pid cache)
+// internally, so callers may expect things like getpid() to work correctly
+// after in both the child and parent.
SANDBOX_EXPORT long sys_clone(unsigned long flags,
- void* child_stack,
+ decltype(nullptr) child_stack,
pid_t* ptid,
pid_t* ctid,
decltype(nullptr) regs);
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