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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:45:52 -0500
From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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       viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de, ak@muc.de, paulus@samba.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed.
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The unshare() syscall is in fact a clone() syscall minus one
CLONE_* flag that is normally implied: CLONE_TASK_STRUCT.
(conceptually -- it has no name because it is always implied)

We already have one flag with inverted action: CLONE_NEWNS.
Adding another such flag (for the task struct) makes sense.
The new system call is thus not needed at all.

Suggested names: CLONE_NO_TASK, CLONE_SAMETASK, CLONE_SHARETASK
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