Re: [PATCH -mm 1/5] New system call, unshare

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 09:34:22 EST


On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0500, JANAK DESAI wrote:
> To answer Ingo's question, we did look at other flags when I started.
> However,
> I wanted to keep the system call simple enough, with atleast namespace
> unsharing,
> so it would get accepted. In the original discussion on fsdevel,
> unsharing of vm
> was mentioned as useful so I added that in addition to namespace unsharing.

So make that a series... Note that it can be merged gradually - adding
and debugging the unsharing of fs, files, etc. can be done independently
and with no ABI changes.
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