From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756704AbYDJNXS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755522AbYDJNXK (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:23:10 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:16704 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755258AbYDJNXJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:23:09 -0400 Message-ID: <47FE14B4.4090705@fr.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:23:00 +0200 From: Cedric Le Goater User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Korotaev CC: Andi Kleen , "David C. Hansen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Containers , Pavel Emelyanov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 References: <20080409222611.GA28087@us.ibm.com> <20080409223231.GA28267@us.ibm.com> <871w5enmk7.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <47FE073B.3060007@fr.ibm.com> <20080410125205.GG10019@one.firstfloor.org> <47FE1219.5010405@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: <47FE1219.5010405@parallels.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kirill Korotaev wrote: > The was no real rationale except for some people seeing "clone" functionality > as the match and the fact that FS_NAMESCAPE was done so made them believe it > is a good way to go. > And I warned about flags limitation at the beginning. yes and now, we've hit the clone wall but that's a good thing. > Both OpenVZ/vserver suggested to use a special syscall for handling this. most projects do it that way. > Maybe it is a good point to switch to it now finally and stop worring about all > this? what would be the interface ? C.