H. Peter Anvin [hpa@xxxxxxxxx] wrote: >> Yes, this was discussed before in the context of Pavel Emelyanov's patch >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/109 >> along with sys_indirect(). While there was no consensus, it looked like >> adding a new system call was better than open ended interfaces. > > That's not really an open-ended interface, it's just an expandable bitmap. Yes, we liked such an approach earlier too and its conceivable that we will run out of the 64-bits too :-) But as Jon Corbet pointed out in the the thread above, it looked like adding a new system call has been the "traditional" way of solving this in Linux so far and there has been no consensus on a newer approach. Sukadev _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
