Re: [RFC][v5][PATCH 8/8]: Define clone_with_pids() syscall

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 09/09/2009 05:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> This is a complex problem. The structure above would need a conversion
> for the pointer size that you can avoid by using a u64, but that introduces
> another problem:
> 
> 2. use a single pointer, with variable length data structures:
> 
> struct pid_set {
> 	int num_pids;
> 	pid_t pids[0];
> };
> 
> Since pid_t is always an int, you have no problem with padding or
> incompatible types, but rely on a data structure definition that
> is not in C89 (not sure about C99).
> 

C90 has these data structures, but you have to give the array a nonzero
length:

struct pid_set {
	int num_pids;
	pid_t pids[1];
};

In C99, this is spelt:

struct pid_set {
	int num_pids;
	pid_t pids[];
};

	-hpa

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