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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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