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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	serue@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, xemul@openvz.org,
	sukadev@us.ibm.com, pierre.peiffer@bull.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fix sys_unshare()+SEM_UNDO: add support for CLONE_SYSVSEM
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:39:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080414123917.b750886a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414145840.GA15667@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:58:40 -0500
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Quoting Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com):
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:04:17 +0200 Manfred Spraul 
> >> <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> sem_undo_list **new_ulistp)
> >>>  {
> >>> -	if (unshare_flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM)
> >>> -		return -EINVAL;
> >>> +	if (unshare_flags & CLONE_SYSVSEM) {
> >>> +		*new_ulistp = (void*)1;
> >>> +	}
> >>>     
> >>
> >> And can we do anything nicer than this?
> >>
> >>   
> > Attached is an alternative. If you prefer it, I'll send another patch set.
> 
> FWIW I definately far far prefer this version  :)

Oh, OK.

I guess I'll drop what I have.  Manfred, can we please have a new patchset?

We might end up slipping this back to 2.6.25.1.  Would that be a bad thing?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-13  8:04 [PATCH 1/2] fix sys_unshare()+SEM_UNDO: add support for CLONE_SYSVSEM Manfred Spraul
2008-04-13  8:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-13 11:36   ` Manfred Spraul
2008-04-13 18:16     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 14:58     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-04-14 19:39       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-14 21:18         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-04-14 21:44       ` Serge E. Hallyn

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