Re: [GIT PULL] clone3 for v5.3

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:24:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 8:05 AM Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > /* Syscall number 435 */
> > clone3() uses syscall number 435 and is coordinated with pidfd_open() which
> > uses syscall number 434. I'm not aware of any other syscall targeted for
> > 5.3 that has chosen the same number.
> 
> You say that, and 434/435 would make sense, but that's not what the
> code I see in the pull request actually does.
> 
> It seems to use syscall 436.
> 
> I think it's because openat2() is looking to use 435, but I'm a bit
> nervous about the conflict between the code and your commentary..

Sorry, that was just me being dumb and forgetting that there was
close_range() which had a chance of going through Al's tree. So I left a
hole for it.

I don't terribly mind if it's 435 or 436. People pointed out you might
even renumber yourself if something makes more sense to you.

Christian