linux-kernel - Re: How much of a mess does OpenVZ make? ;) Was: What can OpenVZ do?

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Message-ID: <20090312212124.GA25019@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:21:24 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Greg Kurz <gkurz@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Cedric Le Goater <legoater@...e.fr>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	mpm@...enic.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hpa@...or.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: How much of a mess does OpenVZ make? ;) Was: What can OpenVZ
	do?

Quoting Greg Kurz (gkurz@...ibm.com):
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 09:53 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Or are you suggesting that you'll do a dummy clone of (5594,2) so that
> > the next clone(CLONE_NEWPID) will be expected to be (5594,3,1)?
> > 
> 
> Of course not

Ok - someone *did* argue that at some point I think...

> but one should be able to tell clone() to pick a specific
> pid.

Can you explain exactly how?  I must be missing something clever.

-serge
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