From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090929184023.532DF34@magilla.sf.frob.com> References: <20090924165548.GA16586@us.ibm.com> <20090924170308.GH16989@us.ibm.com> <200909242343.59903.arnd@arndb.de> <20090925082346.GB4436@localdomain> <20090925105632.GG12824@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> <20090929180537.GD4625@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu's message of Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:05:37 -0700 <20090929180537.GD4625-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Pavel Emelyanov , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kosaki.motohiro-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Why add a new syscall at all instead of just using a new CLONE_* flag to indicate that the argument layout is different? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753752AbZI2Slx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:41:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753448AbZI2Slw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:41:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9739 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753157AbZI2Slv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:41:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Pavel Emelyanov , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall In-Reply-To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu's message of Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:05:37 -0700 <20090929180537.GD4625@us.ibm.com> X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus References: <20090924165548.GA16586@us.ibm.com> <20090924170308.GH16989@us.ibm.com> <200909242343.59903.arnd@arndb.de> <20090925082346.GB4436@localdomain> <20090925105632.GG12824@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> <20090929180537.GD4625@us.ibm.com> X-Windows: a moment of convenience, a lifetime of regret. Message-Id: <20090929184023.532DF34@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Why add a new syscall at all instead of just using a new CLONE_* flag to indicate that the argument layout is different?