Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751234AbWALGVS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:21:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751236AbWALGVS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:21:18 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:29098 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751234AbWALGVR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:21:17 -0500 To: janak@us.ibm.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, dwmw2@infradead.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, jamie@shareable.org, serue@us.ibm.com, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, sgrubb@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/10] unshare system call -v5 : system call handler function References: <1137038992.7488.206.camel@hobbes.atlanta.ibm.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:19:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1137038992.7488.206.camel@hobbes.atlanta.ibm.com> (JANAK DESAI's message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:10:46 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 20 JANAK DESAI writes: > [PATCH -mm 2/10] unshare system call: system call handler function > > sys_unshare system call handler function accepts the same flags as > clone system call, checks constraints on each of the flags and invokes > corresponding unshare functions to disassociate respective process > context if it was being shared with another task. I'm going to log my objection again that you have you are scrambling the sense of the bits as compare to clone and that is very confusing. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/