Re: clone3: allow creation of time namespace with offset

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 05:10:29PM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 02:26:13PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Hi Adrian,
> > 
> > If there was a revision to this patch, I missed it. Is there still a
> > plan to bring CLONE_NEWTIME to clone3()?
> 
> Good that you ask. The discussion ended at the point that we do not have
> a way to figure out what a syscall supports from user-space.  I talked a
> bit with Christian about it and he mentioned that there were some ideas
> floating around how to do that. At that point it made more sense to me
> to wait for such a solution to appear before continuing the clone3()
> time namespace work.

We need to have a little talk at ksummit about some aspects of syscall
design. I'm writing something up for this. But we're not in a rush
anyway, I take it.

Christian