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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 23:09:24 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Subject: Re: a third bug in musl clone()

On 01/02/2018 08:58 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> In any case it should be fixed by checking flags.

I think this would be worse than the cure because it results in subtle 
bugs if the kernel adds more flags which require different argument 
counts.  We saw that with O_TMPFILE and open/openat.

Thanks,
Florian

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