From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758545AbYEEIQa (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 04:16:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755018AbYEEIQN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 04:16:13 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58075 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755002AbYEEIQM (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 04:16:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 01:16:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080505.011612.192490132.davem@davemloft.net> To: 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 13/18] flag parameters: NONBLOCK in socket and socketpair From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200805050342.m453gkn4029850@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <200805050342.m453gkn4029850@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 23:42:46 -0400 > This patch introduces support for the SOCK_NONBLOCK flag in socket, > socketpair, and paccept. To do this the internal function sock_attach_fd > gets an additional parameter which it uses to set the appropriate flag for > the file descriptor. > > Given that in modern, scalable programs almost all socket connections are > non-blocking and the minimal additional cost for the new functionality > I see no reason not to add this code. ... > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper Acked-by: David S. Miller