Hit the send button a little early on my last mail. Just to complete one piece: > My only argument is with the name of the new sysytem call. ... Each of these new system calls (accept4(), dup3(), evenfd2(), signalfd4(), inotify_init1(), epoll_create1(), pipe2()) has a name that's based on the number of arguments it has. This follows a convention that was used in a few traditional Unix system calls, e.g., wait3(), wait4(), dup2(). However, it's probably a mistake since: a) The glibc interfaces can have different numbers of arguments from the system call b) In the future, we might use the new bits in the flags argument to signal the presence of additional arguments for the call, in which case the number in the name no longer matches the number of arguments in the call signature. In the end, names like acceptx(), dupx(), ... or acceptfl(), duplf(), ... or somesuch would probably have been better. But given that we already added the other system calls, it doesn't seem worth bothering to change things for accept4(). Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
