From: Matthew Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, davidel@xmailserver.org,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/18] flag parameters: epoll_create
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210107990.7323.347.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805050342.m453gk49029835@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
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.
Cheers,
-Matt Helsley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 3:42 [PATCH 08/18] flag parameters: epoll_create Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-05 4:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-05-06 21:06 ` Matthew Helsley [this message]
2008-05-06 22:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-05-06 23:10 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-05-06 23:20 ` Davide Libenzi
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