Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757729AbYAXRYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755351AbYAXRYl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:41 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:48557 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752922AbYAXRYj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API From: Dave Hansen To: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Pavel Machek , Linux Containers , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Emelyanov In-Reply-To: <4798C664.1040409@fr.ibm.com> References: <478DFF8F.9030006@openvz.org> <20080123205930.GA5233@ucw.cz> <4798C664.1040409@fr.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:24:34 -0800 Message-Id: <1201195474.8329.38.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:09 +0100, Cedric Le Goater wrote: > yes but we would need more something like : > > long sys_clone64(unsigned long flags_high, unsigned long flag_low) > > if we want the syscall to be supported on 32bit arch. clone2 is also > being used on ia64 already. Did we decide not to do something with a variable number of arguments? sys_clonefoo(unsigned long *flags, int len); -- Dave -- 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/