From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [patch 050/160] prctl: add PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA option for prctl() Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:42:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20100310103910.7CFF.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100309221704.GA1401@redhat.com> <4B96CCB8.9040507@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B96CCB8.9040507-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: kosaki.motohiro-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org, Oleg Nesterov , Christoph Hellwig , akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, bdonlan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org, tss-X3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org, xiyou.wangcong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/09/2010 02:17 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > So, do you really think that this particular case deserves the new > > syscall? > > Continuing a bad thing is never a good reason. Break bad habits. OK. the opinion of caller folks (i.e. you) should be important rather than the patch maker. I'll make respin. thanks.