Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754246AbZJVK0q (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:26:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753647AbZJVK0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:26:45 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com ([209.85.219.207]:46972 "EHLO mail-ew0-f207.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753250AbZJVK0o (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:26:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=BkPd1wenI6Pv06+TRuy8K23WTpNinE6FXbV+ISybtFjEBeaFI7MWqHiiQn4kR4w030 22FyEjeDQsxISLaw9AaOaMEYPYaBySgcAQDhRF531ErVg/cr9P3goAxzAoER/50fkR4p jgI25sV2+LovrEKZX2a9mUhEtoAju5KMutImM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4ADF06B7.50508@zytor.com> 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> <4ADF06B7.50508@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:26:48 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall From: Michael Kerrisk To: "H. Peter Anvin" 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1280 Lines: 38 Peter, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. sys_clone3(struct clone_struct __user *ucs, pid_t __user *pids) It appears to me that the number of arguments is 2. > 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*. I'm not sure why you think including a number in the name tells us "how much more than". Unless you are considering the numbering to be version numbers, which apparently is not what you mean. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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/