From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760589AbYDXPzy (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:55:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758163AbYDXPzi (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:55:38 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50475 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757596AbYDXPzg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:55:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:27:03 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1 Message-ID: <20080424162703.1eec01a2@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <4810AB29.5030604@redhat.com> References: <200804240403.m3O43us8028699@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080424112514.055d8071@the-village.bc.nu> <481096C3.2020206@redhat.com> <20080424152436.6cf53c1b@the-village.bc.nu> <4810A46B.1090809@redhat.com> <20080424160352.30f2dd5b@the-village.bc.nu> <4810AB29.5030604@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Alan Cox wrote: > > Kernel socket type values are assigned by the kernel team so that > > isn't a problem. > > Again, it's not about assigned values. It about those not yet assigned. Earth calling Ulrich, Earth calling Ulrich... "Kernel socket type values are assigned by the kernel team so that isn't a problem." Believe it or not we have the compute capability between us to not accidentally reassign values we assigned to one thing to something else. > Oh really? You open a server socket, use fcntl(FD_CLOEXEC), and then > accept(). And your behaviour just became OS specific.... Alan