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From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:16:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467B7749.6050208@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13b0kebar.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> While working on unshare support for the network namespace I noticed
> we were putting clone flags in an int.  Which is weird because the
> syscall uses unsigned long and we at least need an unsigned to
> properly hold all of the unshare flags. 
> 
> So to make the code consistent, this patch updates the code to use
> unsigned long instead of int for the clone flags in those places
> where we get it wrong today.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

we definitely want to do that. I have a similar patch waiting for 
next -mm doing the same.

Acked-by : Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>

C.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22  6:46 [PATCH] namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-22  7:16 ` Cedric Le Goater [this message]

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