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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: How much of a mess does OpenVZ make? ;) Was: What can OpenVZ do?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:21:24 -0500
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Quoting Greg Kurz (gkurz-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org):
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 09:53 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Or are you suggesting that you'll do a dummy clone of (5594,2) so that
> > the next clone(CLONE_NEWPID) will be expected to be (5594,3,1)?
> > 
> 
> Of course not

Ok - someone *did* argue that at some point I think...

> but one should be able to tell clone() to pick a specific
> pid.

Can you explain exactly how?  I must be missing something clever.

-serge