Peter, On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. So, sometimes, a number in a system call should be the bit width of some arguments(s), sometimes it should be the number of arguments, and sometimes (well, just occasionally, as in mmap2() and clone()) -- it should be a version number? Does the weather play any part in the decision? ;-) Cheers, 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
