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Message-ID: <20080424112514.055d8071@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:25:14 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1
> - I decided against using the O_* flags here. Most are not useful and
> we might need the bits for something else at some time. Hence the
> new SOCKFL_* flag. The intend is to define SOCKFL_CLOEXEC and
> O_CLOEXEC to the same value. In this case there is zero overhead.
Given we will never have 2^32 socket types, and in a sense this is part
of the type why not just use
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, ...)
that would be far far cleaner, no new syscalls on the socket side at all.
Alan
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