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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:58:26 -0400
From: Oren Laadan <orenl@librato.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Ccing kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com and linux-api on this thread.
> 
> Louis Rilling [Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com] wrote:
> | > It will very likely break ia64, which defines CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK and
> | > already has sys_clone2().
> | 
> | -> sys_clone_ext() ?
> | 
> | Louis
> 
> How about spelling out extended and calling it clone_extended() ?
> 
> The other options I can think of are clone_with_pids() and clone3().

I like clone3(), or clone_new() ?

or even better -- how about xerox()  :p

Oren.

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