Extending syscalls (was: [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API)

2008-01-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Al Viro sez: > Nah, just put an XML parser into the kernel to have the form match the > contents... > > Al "perhaps we should newgroup alt.tasteless.api for all that stuff" Viro Heh, indeed. But we do seem to have a recurring problem of people wanting to extend sys_foo() beyond the confines of

Extending syscalls (was: [PATCH 1/2] Extend sys_clone and sys_unshare system calls API)

2008-01-17 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Al Viro sez: Nah, just put an XML parser into the kernel to have the form match the contents... Al perhaps we should newgroup alt.tasteless.api for all that stuff Viro Heh, indeed. But we do seem to have a recurring problem of people wanting to extend sys_foo() beyond the confines of its