Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we
are committed.
[Posted March 21, 2006 by corbet]
| From: |
| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-osdl.org> |
| To: |
| Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-osdl.org> |
| Subject: |
| Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we
are committed. |
| Date: |
| Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:41:30 -0800 (PST) |
| Cc: |
| "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-AT-xmission.com>,
linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, janak-AT-us.ibm.com,
viro-AT-ftp.linux.org.uk, hch-AT-lst.de, mtk-manpages-AT-gmx.net, ak-AT-muc.de,
paulus-AT-samba.org |
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> iirc there was some discussion about this and it was explicitly decided to
> keep the CLONE flags.
>
> Maybe Janak or Linus can comment?
My personal opinion is that having a different set of flags is more
confusing and likely to result in problems later than having the same
ones. Regardless, I'm not touching this for 2.6.16 any more,
Linus
