linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][v5][PATCH 8/8]: Define clone_with

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Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:01:29 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][v5][PATCH 8/8]: Define clone_with_pids() syscall

On 09/09/2009 11:03 AM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> 
> C90 or C99 below should work. Is it ok to use a data structure that is
> not in C89 ? 
> 

C89 is the same as C90 (C89 refers to the ANSI standard, C90 to the ISO
standard, but they're functionally identical.)

> BTW, would it work if we defined 
> 
> 	struct pid_set {
> 		u64 pids;
> 		int num_pids;
> 	}
> 
> where ->pids can be still be a pointer ? The data structure would
> have the same size on all architectures.
> 

It would rather suck in terms of usability, though.

	-hpa

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