Re: [PATCH] unshare: Cleanup up the sys_unshare interface before weare committed.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > 
> > My personal opinion is that having a different set of flags is more 
> > confusing 
> 
> How is it confusing?  And who is it confusing for?

It's confusing because
 - it's just more flags to keep track of
 - it's all the same issues that clone() has
 - it's an opportunity for future incoherence

> It will potentially require kernel developers to think for just 
> a moment about what is going on.  But why care about them -- 
> they don't have to *use* this interface; userland programmers do.

All the confusion is equally a userland issue, don't try to just enforce 
your own opinions as somehow being "facts" by repeating them over and over 
again.

			Linus
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