Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965613AbXFFW5o (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:57:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935738AbXFFW5c (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:57:32 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43398 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935589AbXFFW5b (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:57:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070606.155747.31642197.davem@davemloft.net> To: davidel@xmailserver.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, drepper@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, dada1@cosmosbay.com Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20070606.154434.21926922.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 17 From: Davide Libenzi Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:52:31 -0700 (PDT) > I have no huge preferences. If not the slight one of using the same flags > for open() and socket{2}() (O_NONSEQFD). If we overload socket() we may > need to fight with existing O_* flags. OTOH the current free ones are > pretty high in bits, so it may be OK too. I see. To me this tends to give higher weight to just adding the new socket2() system call. - 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/