Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966048AbXFGAeI (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:34:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755821AbXFGAd4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:33:56 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:2230 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755655AbXFGAdz (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:33:55 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:33:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Arnd Bergmann cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ulrich Drepper , Ingo Molnar , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 In-Reply-To: <200706070229.57473.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: References: <200706070229.57473.arnd@arndb.de> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 25 On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > The sys_socketcall() system call has been also changed to support > > a new SYS_SOCKET2 indentifier. > > I thought the general agreement was that sys_socketcall is a bad > idea to start with. Is there any benefit in adding new calls to > it instead of using a new system call number for sys_socket2 on > all architectures? Ohh, I didn't know it was flagged as "bad" ;) I actually had it that way, but then I noticed there was no __NR_socket, so I complied to the existing way of doing it. - Davide - 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/