I too don't have a strong preference either way ... just a bias toward
keeping the exposed per-cpuset flags as simple and generic as practical.
Exposing internal details that don't need to be exposed has two downsides:
1) it makes using the flags slightly more difficult, as the user has to
figure out more details, and
2) it exposes some internal details that we didn't need to expose, thereby
possibly making future changes more difficult. We can change internal
hidden detail anytime we want, but exposed interfaces are locked in
with a high barrier to incompatible change.
I too would welcome comments from others.
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