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

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Message-Id: <20090929184023.532DF34@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	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>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall

Why add a new syscall at all instead of just using a new CLONE_* flag to
indicate that the argument layout is different?
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