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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 1/5] New system call, unshare

* JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> To answer Ingo's question, we did look at other flags when I started.
> However, I wanted to keep the system call simple enough, with atleast
> namespace unsharing, so it would get accepted. In the original
> discussion on fsdevel, unsharing of vm was mentioned as useful so I
> added that in addition to namespace unsharing.

i think the only sane way to do this is to support unsharing for all
flags. Internally (i.e. in the patch-queue) it can still be structured
in a finegrained way, but in terms of exposing it to applications, it
should be an all or nothing solution i think.

Ingo
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