[RFC][v8][PATCH 0/10] Implement clone3() system call

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Oct 14 09:07:48 PDT 2009


Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> H. Peter Anvin [hpa at zytor.com] wrote:
> | > 
> | > Except we can't use clone2() because it conflicts on ia64.  Care to propose
> | > a name you would prefer?
> 
> Yes, I am running out of ideas :-)
> 
> How about clone64_with_pids() ? - hope we don't need a 65th clone-flag :p

Well, maybe accept that adding more flags will still require a new syscall,
and call this clone_with_pids(), and only take a single 32-bit flags field?

Or, go back to clone_extended().

-serge


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