linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

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Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:33:47 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Valentin Nechayev <netch@...ch.kiev.ua>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, drepper@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:28:26PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>  Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 15:57:42, adobriyan wrote about "[PATCH] nextfd(2)": 
> 
> > So, don't add closefrom(2), add nextfd(2).
> > 
> > 	int nextfd(int fd)
> 
> Is it really needed here to create syscall? One shall update all arch
> lists for it. Instead, adding a new option for fcntl() (named e.g.
> F_NEXTFD) solves for all platforms simultaneously.

This is not a problem, build system even checks for not yet added syscalls.
Explicit syscall is better than multiplexer.
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