Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair

Andrew Morton
2008-05-06T03:05:34Z

On Mon, 05 May 2008 19:58:20 -0700 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What we gain is that the only change for a new flag is a new entry in
> the appropriate table. The reference to non-sequential file descriptors
> refers to
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/236724/

What I meant was "what does this whole patchset do"? Believe it or not,
for a new reader, that is somewhat unobvious. Perhaps one could work it out
with sufficient googling and thread-trolling.