Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:37:08 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API |
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On Thu 2008-01-24 09:24:34, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:09 +0100, Cedric Le Goater wrote: > > yes but we would need more something like : > > > > long sys_clone64(unsigned long flags_high, unsigned long flag_low) > > > > if we want the syscall to be supported on 32bit arch. clone2 is also > > being used on ia64 already. > > Did we decide not to do something with a variable number of arguments? > > sys_clonefoo(unsigned long *flags, int len);
That is evil, because that means strace can no longer reliably print flags being used (for example). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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