Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753052AbZI3Gt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:49:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751405AbZI3Gt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:49:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23524 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbZI3Gt1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:49:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Linus Torvalds X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Arjan van de Ven , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Arnd Bergmann , Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , mingo@elte.hu, Alexey Dobriyan , Pavel Emelyanov , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [RFC][v7][PATCH 8/9]: Define clone2() syscall In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:11:03 -0700 X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus 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> <20090929210207.247b94df@infradead.org> <4AC267C7.4070300@zytor.com> X-Shopping-List: (1) Jubilant ring cheater-hawks (2) Pharmaceutical heterogeneous cards (3) Maternity affluent secretions (4) Expectant snooze riots Message-Id: <20090930064839.AB188A3@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 14 The glibc prototype for clone uses ... and is not a direct map to the syscall args anyway. So that would not change for adding more optional args enabled by certain flags, as it did not change to add the tid pointer arguments before. But indeed the library function would have to change to pass on additional or different args to the existing syscall. Thanks, Roland -- 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/