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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_unshare: simplify the not-really-implemented CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM code
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:53:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331235353.GA7565@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100323230526.GA9932@redhat.com>

On 03/24, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> That said, I do not really care about this cleanup. I did it just because
> I sent another patch which touches check_unshare_flags(), and I was really
> surprised that ~70 lines in kernel/fork.c do nothing but confuse the reader.

I changed my mind. I do care ;)

Seriously, Eric, it is just stupid this code does nothing but complicates
fork.c, and unless you prove this patch is wrong you can't convince me
this patch is bad idea.

> Please nack this patch and lets forget it ;)

Yes. You have all rights to nack it and I won't insist even if I disagree.
But please do this explicitly, otherwise I'll resend it.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-23 17:08 [PATCH -mm] sys_unshare: simplify the not-really-implemented CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM code Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-23 21:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-23 23:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-31 23:53     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-04-09 20:03 ` Roland McGrath

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