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From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, janak@us.ibm.com,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, ak@muc.de, paulus@samba.org,
	mtk-manpages@gmx.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed.
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:45:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <787b0d920603192045y76e99e32p4ddde31961f80bb9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

The unshare() syscall is in fact a clone() syscall minus one
CLONE_* flag that is normally implied: CLONE_TASK_STRUCT.
(conceptually -- it has no name because it is always implied)

We already have one flag with inverted action: CLONE_NEWNS.
Adding another such flag (for the task struct) makes sense.
The new system call is thus not needed at all.

Suggested names: CLONE_NO_TASK, CLONE_SAMETASK, CLONE_SHARETASK

             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20  4:45 Albert Cahalan [this message]
2006-03-20 16:52 ` [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] <1359.1142546753@www064.gmx.net>
2006-03-16 23:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-16 23:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17  1:11     ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-17  5:42       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-17 16:04         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-17 16:49           ` Janak Desai
2006-03-17 20:27         ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-18 18:41         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-18 19:54           ` Janak Desai
2006-03-19 13:58             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-18 23:41           ` Paul Mackerras
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-16 16:49 Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-16 19:40 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-16 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 20:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-16 21:58     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-16 22:19       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-16 21:36   ` Janak Desai

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