Re: [PATCH -mm 2/10] unshare system call -v5 : system call handler function

[JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com> writes:
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>>[PATCH -mm 2/10] unshare system call: system call handler function
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>>sys_unshare system call handler function accepts the same flags as
>>clone system call, checks constraints on each of the flags and invokes
>>corresponding unshare functions to disassociate respective process
>>context if it was being shared with another task.
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>I'm going to log my objection again that you have you are
>scrambling the sense of the bits as compare to clone and that
>is very confusing.
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>Eric
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Thanks, I do understand your objection. In the document file describing 
the feature
I did mention the bit inversion as a source for confusion. However, I 
found the
alternatives to be even more confusing. I went back to the original 
discussion of
unshare interface on lkml in August of 2000 and in one of the posts 
Linus indicated
that it makes sense for unshare(CLONE_FILES) to undo the sharing done by
clone(CLONE_FILES). So I stuck with what I had in the patch posted in mid
December.

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.3/0662.html

-Janak