linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] fork: add helper to clone a process

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Message-ID: <YURLQvJAO2mCX0zJ@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:01:06 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>,
        stefanha@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com,
        sgarzare@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] fork: add helper to clone a process

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:44:40AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > generally want a printf-like varargs caling conventions.  I'd also
> > much prefer to hide as much as possible in the actual helper.  That is
> > build a helper that gets the name, a flag to ignore the singals etc
> > instead of exporting all these random low-level helpers.
> 
> Yes, I think that's really what we want here.

In a way this would mean enhancing the kthread API to also support I/O
threads.