linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:16:25 +0200
From:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an
 unsigned long

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@...ssion.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@...ibm.com>

C.
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