linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall

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Message-ID: <20090929180537.GD4625@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:05:37 -0700
From:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall

Ccing kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com and linux-api on this thread.

Louis Rilling [Louis.Rilling@...labs.com] wrote:
| > It will very likely break ia64, which defines CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK and
| > already has sys_clone2().
| 
| -> sys_clone_ext() ?
| 
| Louis

How about spelling out extended and calling it clone_extended() ?

The other options I can think of are clone_with_pids() and clone3().

Thanks for your feedback.

Sukadev
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