How much of a mess does OpenVZ make? ;) Was: What can OpenVZ do?

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Greg Kurz (gkurz at fr.ibm.com):
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 09:53 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Or are you suggesting that you'll do a dummy clone of (5594,2) so that
> > the next clone(CLONE_NEWPID) will be expected to be (5594,3,1)?
> > 
> 
> Of course not

Ok - someone *did* argue that at some point I think...

> but one should be able to tell clone() to pick a specific
> pid.

Can you explain exactly how?  I must be missing something clever.

-serge