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Date:   Sat, 1 Jun 2019 00:13:57 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] fork: add clone3
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On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 01:38:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 3:24 PM Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for thinking about time namespaces. I looked at this patch
> > quickly and I would suggest to move a termination signal out of flags. I
> > think we can add a separate field (exit_signal) into clone_args. Does it
> > make sense? For me, exit_signal in flags always looked weird...
> 
> I agree - the child signal in flags was always just a "it fits" kind
> of thing, and that was obviously true back then, but is not true now.

(Traveling until Monday, so sorry for delayed responses.)

Yip, I agree that this is a good idea (answered Andrei's mail just now
saying the same thing). I'll send out a new version of the patch with
these changes added next week.

Christian