From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 0/10] Implement clone3() system call Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:49:05 -0700 Message-ID: <4AD511F1.7010207@zytor.com> References: <20091013044925.GA28181@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091013044925.GA28181-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: randy.dunlap-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org, Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Louis.Rilling-aw0BnHfMbSpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , kosaki.motohiro-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, Alexey Dobriyan , roland-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Pavel Emelyanov List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On 10/12/2009 09:49 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > This patchset implements a new system call, clone3() that lets a process > specify the pids of the child process. > A system call named clone3() taking two parameters is just too weird to live. No, please. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761697AbZJNABZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:01:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761507AbZJNABY (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:01:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33458 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760825AbZJNABX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD511F1.7010207@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:49:05 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oren Laadan , serue@us.ibm.com, "Eric W. Biederman" , Alexey Dobriyan , Pavel Emelyanov , Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mikew@google.com, mingo@elte.hu, Nathan Lynch , arnd@arndb.de, peterz@infradead.org, Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com, roland@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Containers , sukadev@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 0/10] Implement clone3() system call References: <20091013044925.GA28181@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20091013044925.GA28181@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/12/2009 09:49 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > This patchset implements a new system call, clone3() that lets a process > specify the pids of the child process. > A system call named clone3() taking two parameters is just too weird to live. No, please. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.