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

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 13:29:08 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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?

I'm not planning to use unshare(CLONE_VM). It's not needed for any
functionality planned so far. What we (as in Red Hat) need unshare()
for now is the filesystem side.

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