# Re: \[PATCH 1/8\] fork: add helper to clone a process

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@infradead.org\>
- Date: 2021-09-17 08:08:07 
- List: virtualization
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/virtualization/2021/09/1512636
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/lkml/2021/09/1512165/t.md

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On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:44:40AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > generally want a printf-like varargs caling conventions.  I'd also
> > much prefer to hide as much as possible in the actual helper.  That is
> > build a helper that gets the name, a flag to ignore the singals etc
> > instead of exporting all these random low-level helpers.
> 
> Yes, I think that's really what we want here.

In a way this would mean enhancing the kthread API to also support I/O
threads.
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