Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753367AbZJUNMJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:12:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753207AbZJUNMI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:12:08 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38193 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753110AbZJUNMG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:12:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4ADF06B7.50508@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:03:51 +0900 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com CC: Matt Helsley , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , randy.dunlap@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com, "Eric W. Biederman" , kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Alexey Dobriyan , roland@redhat.com, Pavel Emelyanov Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall References: <20091013044925.GA28181@us.ibm.com> <20091013045439.GI28435@us.ibm.com> <20091016042041.GA7220@us.ibm.com> <20091016180631.GA31036@us.ibm.com> <20091019174405.GE27627@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> <4ADCDAA8.5080408@zytor.com> <20091019235012.GF27627@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 18 On 10/21/2009 01:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > My question here is: what does "3" actually mean? In general, system > calls have not followed any convention of numbering to indicate > successive versions -- clone2() being the one possible exception that > I know of. > "3" is number of arguments. It's better than "extended" or something like that simply because "extended" just means "more than", and a number at least tells you *how much more than*. -hpa -- 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/