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Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls [message #29273 is a reply to message #29272]

Thu, 10 April 2008 02:43

Paul Menage
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM,  <sukadev@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>  But as Jon Corbet pointed out in the the thread above, it looked like
>  adding a new system call has been the "traditional" way of solving this
>  in Linux so far and there has been no consensus on a newer approach.
>

I thought that the consensus was that adding a new system call was
better than trying to force extensibility on to the existing
non-extensible system call.

But if we are adding a new system call, why not make the new one
extensible to reduce the need for yet another new call in the future?

Paul
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		[PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Wed, 09 April 2008 22:26
		[PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Wed, 09 April 2008 22:32
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Andi Kleen on Thu, 10 April 2008 08:25
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Cedric Le Goater on Thu, 10 April 2008 12:25
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Andi Kleen on Thu, 10 April 2008 12:50
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Kirill Korotaev on Thu, 10 April 2008 13:11
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Cedric Le Goater on Thu, 10 April 2008 13:23
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Cedric Le Goater on Thu, 10 April 2008 13:18
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: serue on Thu, 10 April 2008 17:14
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Daniel Hokka Zakrisso on Thu, 10 April 2008 22:13
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: serue on Thu, 10 April 2008 22:49
		Re: [PATCH 1/3] change clone_flags type to u64 By: Daniel Hokka Zakrisso on Fri, 11 April 2008 08:45
		[PATCH 2/3] add do_unshare() By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Wed, 09 April 2008 22:34
		[PATCH 3/3] add the clone64() and unshare64() syscalls By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Wed, 09 April 2008 22:34
		Re: [PATCH 3/3] add the clone64() and unshare64() syscalls By: Jakub Jelinek on Wed, 09 April 2008 23:07
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: hpa on Thu, 10 April 2008 00:00
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Thu, 10 April 2008 01:07
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: hpa on Thu, 10 April 2008 01:10
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Thu, 10 April 2008 02:38
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Paul Menage on Thu, 10 April 2008 02:43
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Sukadev Bhattiprolu on Thu, 10 April 2008 18:26
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: hpa on Thu, 10 April 2008 18:31
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Cedric Le Goater on Thu, 10 April 2008 12:33
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: hpa on Thu, 10 April 2008 16:00
		Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls By: Cedric Le Goater on Thu, 10 April 2008 06:48

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