From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757672AbYEFCnZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 22:43:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751788AbYEFCnO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 22:43:14 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60771 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751057AbYEFCnN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 22:43:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:42:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair Message-Id: <20080505194221.4349418b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <481FC38A.6070805@redhat.com> References: <200805050342.m453gktl029817@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080505185850.789d870a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481FC38A.6070805@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) 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 On Mon, 05 May 2008 19:33:46 -0700 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > afaict we only ever remap one or two flags. > > So far. I have plans for at least one more flag: the one we'll > hopefully have sometime soon to request non-sequential file descriptors. > There is no reason why there shouldn't be even more in future. oh. More overhead. Sorry to sound slow, but what do we gain from all this? Your covering description was heavy in references to some earlier discussion to which I obviously paid little attention and now I'm lost.