netdev - Re: [PATCH] socket, socketpair w/flags, accept4

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Message-ID: <517f3f820804242343g22700872tf31f0c15047e70e2@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:43:05 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] socket, socketpair w/flags, accept4

On 4/25/08, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
>  On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:20:47PM -0400, Ulrich Drepper (drepper@...hat.com) wrote:
>  > The code changes are really minimal.  And don't get too hung up on the
>  > internal name of the syscall.  I think accept4 is more desriptive than
>  > paccept since a) suffixes more easily indicate derived functionality
>  > and b) the 4 actually indicates to the initiated what has changed.
>  > If there are good reasons otherwise the userlevel interface can still
>  > be something completely different.
>
>
> What about sigset there too?

Right.  That was what I was understanding that Alan referred to when
he was talking about paccept()
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