From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Chris Evans <scarybeasts@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>, Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>,
Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>,
Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>,
stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && ->exit_signal interaction
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:12:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902261410581.3111@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090226215945.GA12520@redhat.com>
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Really, how CLONE_PARENT + exit_signal==0 can be useful?
Umm? For the reason I already stated?
> But because the current behaviour is just silly. Imho.
So? If there are people using it, you calling it silly is immaterial.
The fact is, it's an existing user space interface. We don't break them.
> But of course, if this change can break the user-space applications, then
> it should not be applied.
That's the point. Nobody has shown that there aren't any users.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 19:02 Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-25 19:39 ` Roland McGrath
2009-02-25 19:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-25 19:54 ` Roland McGrath
2009-02-25 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-25 21:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-25 21:34 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-02-26 21:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-26 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-02-26 22:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-26 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-02 21:22 ` [PATCH] copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && parent_exec_id interaction Oleg Nesterov
2009-03-02 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-02 21:58 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-03-09 16:45 ` David Howells
2009-03-09 18:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
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