Re: [patch] complain about unknown CLONE_* flags

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > Ingo, how do you handle this sort of backward compatibility in your
> > latest pthreads library, or don't you do backward compatibility?
> 
> [btw., it's not me doing it but Ulrich Drepper. I'm mostly doing the 'lets
> find out how the kernel could help' side of things.]
> 
> the proper way of doing this is a way of getting fundamental kernel
> capabilities, not the 'probing' of the kernel in various ways. Glibc
> starts looking like old ISA drivers trying to do nonintrusive
> autodetection: 'lets try this port carefully without disturbing state,
> perhaps this feature is there'.
> 
> one way to handle this cleanly would be to add a kernel capabilities
> bitmask to sysconf(), and backport this to all mainstream Linux kernels

I'm afraid that bitmask will get out-of-date. Doing EINVAL seems like a good
way to do this. [Hmm, perhaps we need CLONE_DONT which only checks capabilities
and returns? It still seems better than sysconf...]
									Pavel
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