From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfd, signalfd, timerfd, epoll_create w/flags
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:27:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48150BDA.5070903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804271614240.18184@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Ok, I asked this myself for about ten minutes, than I gave up. But why
> sys_epoll_createp() instead of sys_epoll_create2()? There MUST be a reason
> to deviate from the standard of all the other ones...
I used the number at the end for syscalls which aren't visible at
userlevel. There they are useful indicating the number of arguments.
At userlevel I personally find it less than optimal but I'd have no
problem changing it to epoll_create2.
- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 22:17 [PATCH] eventfd, signalfd, timerfd, epoll_create w/flags Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-27 23:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-04-27 23:27 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2008-04-27 23:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 23:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-27 23:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-28 0:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-04-28 7:12 ` Michael Kerrisk
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