linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] add the clone64() and unshare64() syscalls

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Message-ID: <20080409230733.GR20478@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:07:34 -0400
From:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
To:	sukadev@...ibm.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, clg@...ibm.com, serue@...ibm.com,
	"David C. Hansen" <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] add the clone64() and unshare64() syscalls

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:34:59PM -0700, sukadev@...ibm.com wrote:
> From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] add the clone64() and unshare64() syscalls
> 
> This patch adds 2 new syscalls :
> 
>      long sys_clone64(unsigned long flags_high, unsigned long flags_low,
> 		unsigned long newsp);
> 
>      long sys_unshare64(unsigned long flags_high, unsigned long flags_low);

Can you explain why are you adding it for 64-bit arches too?  unsigned long
is there already 64-bit, and both sys_clone and sys_unshare have unsigned
long flags, rather than unsigned int.

	Jakub
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