H. Peter Anvin [hpa@xxxxxxxxx] wrote: > On 10/21/2009 01:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> >> My question here is: what does "3" actually mean? In general, system >> calls have not followed any convention of numbering to indicate >> successive versions -- clone2() being the one possible exception that >> I know of. >> > > "3" is number of arguments. To me, it is a version number. mmap() and mmap2() both have 6 parameters. Besides if wait4() were born before wait3(), would it still be wait4() :-) But I see that it is hard to get one-convention-that-fits-all. > 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*. And extended assumes we wont extend again. An informal poll of reviewers has clone3() with a slight advantage :-) clone_extended() camp: Serge Hallyn, Kerrisk, Louis Rilling, clone3(): Sukadev, H. Peter Anvin, Oren, Matt Helsley. I like clone3() but am not insisting on it. I just want a name... Sukadev _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
