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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804240828100.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:29:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> 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, ...)
Ok, I have to admit that I find this very appealing. It looks much
cleaner, but perhaps more importantly, it also looks both readable _and_
easier to use for the user-space programmer.
Linus
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