Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:42:53 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before we are committed. |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > - it's all the same issues that clone() has > > At the moment, but possibly not in the future (if one day > usnhare() needs a flag that has no analogue in clone()).
I don't believe that.
If we have something we might want to unshare, that implies by definition that it was something we wanted to conditionally share in the first place.
IOW, it ends up being something that would be a clone() flag.
So I really do believe that there is a fundamental 1:1 between the flags. They aren't just "similar". They are very fundamentally about the same thing, and giving two different names to the same thing is CONFUSING.
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