On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm). This is not enough > if we have mm->core_waiters. This patch is a temporary > fix for soon to be released 2.6.16. 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? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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