From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964850AbWCPUl7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:41:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964855AbWCPUl5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:41:57 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30891 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964850AbWCPUl4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:41:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:41:30 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, janak@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, ak@muc.de, paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed. In-Reply-To: <20060316123341.0f55fd07.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060316123341.0f55fd07.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > iirc there was some discussion about this and it was explicitly decided to > keep the CLONE flags. > > Maybe Janak or Linus can comment? My personal opinion is that having a different set of flags is more confusing and likely to result in problems later than having the same ones. Regardless, I'm not touching this for 2.6.16 any more, Linus