Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:37:31 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] New system call, unshare |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Llu, 2005-08-08 at 09:33 -0400, Janak Desai wrote: > > >>[PATCH 1/2] unshare system call: System Call handler function sys_unshare >> >> > > >Given the complexity of the kernel code involved and the obscurity of >the functionality why not just do another clone() in userspace to >unshare the things you want to unshare and then _exit the parent ? > > > suppose somebody wait()s for the parent? you've turned a synchronous operation into an asynchronous one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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