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Message-ID: <20080424162703.1eec01a2@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:27:03 +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
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Kernel socket type values are assigned by the kernel team so that
> > isn't a problem.
>
> Again, it's not about assigned values. It about those not yet assigned.
Earth calling Ulrich, Earth calling Ulrich...
"Kernel socket type values are assigned by the kernel team so that isn't a
problem."
Believe it or not we have the compute capability between us to not
accidentally reassign values we assigned to one thing to something else.
> Oh really? You open a server socket, use fcntl(FD_CLOEXEC), and then
> accept().
And your behaviour just became OS specific....
Alan
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