From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de,
Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
roland@redhat.com, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:38:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE0444B.5070603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfd18e0f0910220326w1a71b899s5ff0fce9e0a2b8ed@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/22/2009 07:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>
>> "3" is number of arguments.
>
> sys_clone3(struct clone_struct __user *ucs, pid_t __user *pids)
>
> It appears to me that the number of arguments is 2.
>
It was 3 at one point... I'm not sure when that changed last :-/
>> It's better than "extended" or something like
>> that simply because "extended" just means "more than", and a number at least
>> tells you *how much more than*.
>
> I'm not sure why you think including a number in the name tells us
> "how much more than". Unless you are considering the numbering to be
> version numbers, which apparently is not what you mean.
It is a version number of sorts.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-22 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 4:49 [RFC][v8][PATCH 0/10] Implement clone3() system call Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:49 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 1/10]: Factor out code to allocate pidmap page Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:50 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 2/10]: Have alloc_pidmap() return actual error code Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:50 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 3/10]: Make pid_max a pid_ns property Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 5:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-10-13 13:09 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 15:24 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-13 16:10 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 16:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-13 4:51 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 4/10]: Add target_pid parameter to alloc_pidmap() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 11:50 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-15 0:24 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:51 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 5/10]: Add target_pids parameter to alloc_pid() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:52 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 6/10]: Add target_pids parameter to copy_process() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:52 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 7/10]: Check invalid clone flags Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 18:35 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-13 23:38 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:52 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 8/10]: Define do_fork_with_pids() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 4:54 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 18:46 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-16 4:20 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-16 6:25 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-10-16 18:06 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-19 17:44 ` Matt Helsley
2009-10-19 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-19 23:50 ` Matt Helsley
2009-10-21 4:26 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-10-21 13:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-21 19:44 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-21 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-22 10:40 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-10-22 18:10 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-22 10:26 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-10-22 11:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-10-22 12:14 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-10-22 12:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-22 13:57 ` Matt Helsley
2009-10-13 4:55 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 10/10]: Document " Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-14 12:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-14 18:39 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-19 21:36 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-21 8:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-21 9:33 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-21 13:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-21 18:27 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 20:50 ` [RFC][v8][PATCH 0/10] Implement clone3() system call Roland McGrath
2009-10-13 23:27 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 23:53 ` Roland McGrath
2009-10-14 1:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-14 4:36 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-14 4:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-14 22:36 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-14 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-15 0:17 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-13 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-14 1:39 ` Matt Helsley
2009-10-14 2:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-14 4:40 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-14 4:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-10-14 16:07 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-16 19:22 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-10-16 19:44 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-19 20:34 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-10-19 21:47 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-20 0:51 ` Matt Helsley
2009-10-20 3:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-20 4:03 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-20 10:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-20 14:16 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-20 18:33 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-20 19:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-20 20:13 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-21 6:20 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-21 9:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-21 18:52 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-21 21:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-23 0:42 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-23 1:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-23 5:30 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-23 5:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-23 19:21 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-23 20:48 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-23 23:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-24 3:38 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2009-10-23 19:16 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-23 19:34 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-23 23:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-20 14:09 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-21 15:53 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-10-21 18:45 ` Oren Laadan
2009-10-22 11:22 ` Daniel Lezcano
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