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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Re: add loongarch64 port
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:09:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220413140930.GV7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0Mc9WEwcNEQfMn1iTLf0syBFJQ29+j3KBt-P=ZYg76NQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 03:25:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:04 AM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:26:06AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >
> > > The normal rule is that we don't define obsolete system calls in new
> > > architectures when an improved variant has been added, e.g. oldoldstat,
> > > oldstat, stat, newstat and stat64 have all been replaced by statx over
> > > the decades. I was expecting the same to be true for clone(), but if
> > > clone3() is not meant as a replacement, we can keep both around.
> >
> > No, I agree with you on this and would like to only implement clone3()
> > on new architectures.
> >
> > What I'm asking is whether removing the size == 0 check is enough to
> > unblock the missing behavior and whether you'd be on board with removing
> > the check?
> 
> I think that's ok here, since we'd only rely on this for loongarch64 at the
> moment. It would probably need to be documented in the man page
> as a special case though.

I'm okay with removing the check for size==0 (so size==0 will be
allowed) and dropping __NR_clone on new archs, as long as it's noted
in comments/documentation that size==0 is explicitly allowed so nobody
breaks this in the future.

Rich

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-13 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-31  6:20 王洪亮
2022-03-31  8:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-01  7:40   ` 王洪亮
2022-04-01  7:48     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-02  6:19       ` 王洪亮
2022-04-02  7:21         ` Rich Felker
2022-04-02  9:53           ` 王洪亮
2022-04-27  1:58   ` 王洪亮
2022-04-27  2:13     ` Rich Felker
2022-03-31 18:47 ` Rich Felker
2022-04-02  7:59   ` 王洪亮
2022-04-06  2:08     ` 王洪亮
2022-04-06 16:00       ` Markus Wichmann
2022-04-08  2:21         ` 王洪亮
2022-04-08  6:46           ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-09  3:54             ` 王洪亮
2022-04-09 11:06               ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-09 13:19                 ` Rich Felker
2022-04-09 13:30                   ` Rich Felker
2022-04-10 10:30                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-10 15:26                       ` Rich Felker
2022-04-11  8:03                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-11 12:11                           ` Rich Felker
2022-04-11 13:01                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-12  1:11                               ` 王洪亮
2022-04-13  1:16                                 ` 王洪亮
2022-04-13  7:26                       ` Christian Brauner
2022-04-13  8:26                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-13  9:04                           ` Christian Brauner
2022-04-13 13:25                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-04-13 14:09                               ` Rich Felker [this message]
2022-04-14  9:36                                 ` Christian Brauner
2022-04-20  9:09                                   ` 王洪亮
2022-04-20 13:33                                     ` Christian Brauner
2022-04-20 13:54                                       ` Rich Felker
2022-04-21  6:54                                         ` 王洪亮
2022-04-14  9:36                               ` Christian Brauner
2022-04-13  7:19                   ` Christian Brauner
2022-04-13 14:06                     ` Rich Felker
2022-04-11  3:40                 ` 王洪亮
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-22  3:52 [musl] " 王洪亮
2022-03-29  8:12 ` [musl] " 王洪亮
2022-03-29  8:26   ` Arnd Bergmann

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