From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765186AbYD0X1v (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752942AbYD0X1o (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45416 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752034AbYD0X1n (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:27:43 -0400 Message-ID: <48150BDA.5070903@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:27:22 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfd, signalfd, timerfd, epoll_create w/flags References: <200804272217.m3RMHZ0S021481@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIFQva2ijCOnn/RHQRApYwAKCL4Ff6tZv+VyeuIMN6NHV1cCBhIACgvQRJ YoZSN1dRdmarRhU0DzG0dbY= =0nln -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----