Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:43:30 -0700 | From | "Paul Menage" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls |
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, <sukadev@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > But as Jon Corbet pointed out in the the thread above, it looked like > adding a new system call has been the "traditional" way of solving this > in Linux so far and there has been no consensus on a newer approach. >
I thought that the consensus was that adding a new system call was better than trying to force extensibility on to the existing non-extensible system call.
But if we are adding a new system call, why not make the new one extensible to reduce the need for yet another new call in the future?
Paul
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