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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:03:51 +0900
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On 10/21/2009 01:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>
> My question here is: what does "3" actually mean? In general, system
> calls have not followed any convention of numbering to indicate
> successive versions -- clone2() being the one possible exception that
> I know of.
>

"3" is number of arguments.  It's better than "extended" or something 
like that simply because "extended" just means "more than", and a number 
at least tells you *how much more than*.

	-hpa