From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:42:21 -0700 Message-ID: <20080505194221.4349418b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200805050342.m453gktl029817@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080505185850.789d870a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481FC38A.6070805@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Ulrich Drepper Return-path: 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 In-Reply-To: <481FC38A.6070805@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.