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 23:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090930064839.AB188A3@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> <20090929184023.532DF34@magilla.sf.frob.com> <4AC255A4.4030002@zytor.com> <20090929210207.247b94df@infradead.org> <4AC267C7.4070300@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:11:03 -0700 Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Arjan van de Ven , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Arnd Bergmann , Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@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 The glibc prototype for clone uses ... and is not a direct map to the syscall args anyway. So that would not change for adding more optional args enabled by certain flags, as it did not change to add the tid pointer arguments before. But indeed the library function would have to change to pass on additional or different args to the existing syscall. Thanks, Roland -- 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