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From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
	drepper@redhat.com, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:23:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9803.1200493420@vena.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:58:55 +0300." <478DFF8F.9030006@openvz.org>

Hi, Pavel,

[Adding Ulrich]

> I use the last bit in the clone_flags for CLONE_LONGARG. When set it
> will denote that the child_tidptr is not a pointer to a tid storage,
> but the pointer to the struct long_clone_struct which currently 
> looks like this:

I'm probably just totally off the deep end, but something did occur to
me: this looks an awful lot like a special version of the sys_indirect()
idea.  Unless it has been somehow decided that sys_indirect() is the
wrong idea, might it not be better to look at making that interface
solve the extended clone() problem as well?

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 12:58 [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-16 12:58 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-16 14:23 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
     [not found]   ` <9803.1200493420-k5ufJzZ057zk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-16 15:05     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-16 15:05       ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-17  3:48   ` Al Viro
2008-01-17  9:28     ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-01-17 15:02     ` Extending syscalls (was: [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API) Jonathan Corbet
2008-01-17 19:26       ` Extending syscalls H. Peter Anvin
     [not found] ` <478DFF8F.9030006-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-16 13:00   ` [PATCH 2/2] Propagate the long_clone_arg up to the create_new_namespaces Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-16 13:00     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-23 20:59   ` [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API Pavel Machek
2008-01-23 20:59     ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]     ` <20080123205930.GA5233-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-24 17:09       ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-01-24 17:09         ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-01-24 17:24         ` Dave Hansen
2008-01-24 17:37           ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-24 17:46             ` Dave Hansen
2008-01-24 17:50               ` Pavel Machek

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