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Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:05 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davidel@...ilserver.org,
mtk.manpages@...il.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> To me, it seems overriding 2nd argument is a too ad-hoc workaround,
> and introducing new syscalls with flags is cleaner, e.g.,
> psocket(family, socktype, protocol, flags);
> psocketpair(d, type, protocol, int sv[2], flags);
While I agree, you missed the initial discussion where Alan, DaveM, and
Linus expressed preference for this overloading.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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