From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
davidel@xmailserver.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:05:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505200500.0d1018df.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481FC94C.8090203@redhat.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 3:42 [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-05 4:24 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-05-05 5:00 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-05 8:11 ` David Miller
2008-05-06 1:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 2:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-05-06 2:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 2:30 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-05-06 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-06 2:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-06 2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 2:58 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-06 3:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-06 3:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-06 3:02 ` Ulrich Drepper
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