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From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
	linuxram@us.ibm.com, ericvh@gmail.com, dwalsh@redhat.com,
	jmorris@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	gh@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] New system call, unshare
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:37:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F77C3B.20900@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123512366.31229.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Llu, 2005-08-08 at 09:33 -0400, Janak Desai wrote:
>  
>
>>[PATCH 1/2] unshare system call: System Call handler function sys_unshare
>>    
>>
>
>
>Given the complexity of the kernel code involved and the obscurity of
>the functionality why not just do another clone() in userspace to
>unshare the things you want to unshare and then _exit the parent ?
>
>  
>
suppose somebody wait()s for the parent? you've turned a synchronous 
operation into an asynchronous one.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-08 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-08 13:33 [PATCH 1/2] New system call, unshare Janak Desai
2005-08-08 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-08 14:41   ` serge
2005-08-08 15:37   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2005-08-23  6:07   ` Al Viro

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