From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:38:51 +0900 Message-ID: <4AE0444B.5070603@zytor.com> References: <20091013044925.GA28181@us.ibm.com> <20091013045439.GI28435@us.ibm.com> <20091016042041.GA7220@us.ibm.com> <20091016180631.GA31036@us.ibm.com> <20091019174405.GE27627@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> <4ADCDAA8.5080408@zytor.com> <20091019235012.GF27627@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> <4ADF06B7.50508@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: Matt Helsley , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , randy.dunlap@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com, "Eric W. Biederman" , kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Alexey Dobriyan , roland@redhat.com, Pavel Emelyanov List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 10/22/2009 07:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> >> "3" is number of arguments. > > sys_clone3(struct clone_struct __user *ucs, pid_t __user *pids) > > It appears to me that the number of arguments is 2. > It was 3 at one point... I'm not sure when that changed last :-/ >> 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*. > > I'm not sure why you think including a number in the name tells us > "how much more than". Unless you are considering the numbering to be > version numbers, which apparently is not what you mean. It is a version number of sorts. -hpa