Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:38:18 -0700 | From | sukadev@us ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone64() and unshare64() system calls |
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H. Peter Anvin [hpa@zytor.com] wrote: >> Yes, this was discussed before in the context of Pavel Emelyanov's patch >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/109 >> along with sys_indirect(). While there was no consensus, it looked like >> adding a new system call was better than open ended interfaces. > > That's not really an open-ended interface, it's just an expandable bitmap.
Yes, we liked such an approach earlier too and its conceivable that we will run out of the 64-bits too :-)
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.
Sukadev
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