Peter, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:03 PM, 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. sys_clone3(struct clone_struct __user *ucs, pid_t __user *pids) It appears to me that the number of arguments is 2. > 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. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
