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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805061540560.25162@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> To: Matthew Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com> cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mtk.manpages@...il.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/18] flag parameters: epoll_create On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matthew Helsley wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:42 -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > This patch adds the new epoll_create2 syscall. It extends the old epoll_create > > syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this > > patch the only flag support is EPOLL_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec > > flag for the returned file descriptor to be set. > > Davide, Ulrich, > > A minor question: Why did you choose to pass the seemingly useless > "size" parameter into the new epoll_create2 system call? I did some > googling for previous threads with this series and couldn't find a > discussion on why you chose to keep it. The very first implementations were using an hash, and that was a size hint. - Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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