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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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