linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys

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Message-ID: <517f3f820804240527l66e4372dt9d6cdc293e35899d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:27:28 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
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

On 4/24/08, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com> wrote:
> The alternative to using sys_indirect is to create a whole bunch of new
>  syscalls.  Here the beginning.  These are the socket interfaces which
>  create file descriptors and therefore need a flags parameter to let
>  the caller decide about setting the close-on-exit bit.

Ulrich,

Could you please CC me on patches that make kernel-userland API changes.

Cheers,

Michael
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