Re: [PATCH] for 2.6.16, disable unshare_vm()

[Janak Desai]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>  
>
> > sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm). This is not enough
> > if we have mm->core_waiters. This patch is a temporary
> > fix for soon to be released 2.6.16.
> >    
>
> Yes. Quick raising of hands: is there anybody out there that expects to 
> use unshare(CLONE_VM) right now? One of the reasons it was integrated was 
> that I thought glibc wanted it for distros. Is disabling the CLONE_VM 
> unsharing going to impact that?
>
> 		Linus
>
>  
We are using namespace and filesystem unsharing for our common criteria
certification work and would not be impacted by disabling of vm unsharing.

-Janak
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