Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753899AbZI2TCw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:02:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753771AbZI2TCv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:02:51 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:36043 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753735AbZI2TCu (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:02:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:02:07 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Roland McGrath , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Arnd Bergmann , Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Pavel Emelyanov , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall Message-ID: <20090929210207.247b94df@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <4AC255A4.4030002@zytor.com> References: <20090924165548.GA16586@us.ibm.com> <20090924170308.GH16989@us.ibm.com> <200909242343.59903.arnd@arndb.de> <20090925082346.GB4436@localdomain> <20090925105632.GG12824@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> <20090929180537.GD4625@us.ibm.com> <20090929184023.532DF34@magilla.sf.frob.com> <4AC255A4.4030002@zytor.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 26 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:44:52 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > On 09/29/2009 11:40 AM, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Why add a new syscall at all instead of just using a new CLONE_* > > flag to indicate that the argument layout is different? > > What an absolutely atrociously bad idea. > > We already have a syscall layer which is painful to thunk in places, > and this would make it much worse. > syscalls are cheap as well. cheaper than decades of dealing with such multiplexer mess ;/ -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/