From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755074AbYDXV20 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:28:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753199AbYDXV2P (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:28:15 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47404 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751205AbYDXV2O (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:28:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:58:58 +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] socket, socketpair w/flags, accept4 Message-ID: <20080424215858.771f718a@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <200804241820.m3OIKlMK017580@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <200804241820.m3OIKlMK017580@devserv.devel.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 > The code changes are really minimal. And don't get too hung up on the > internal name of the syscall. I think accept4 is more desriptive than > paccept since a) suffixes more easily indicate derived functionality > and b) the 4 actually indicates to the initiated what has changed. Names can be argued about separately to functionality. Can we also get the behaviour of flag inheritance and other stuff defined in any future API spec for this so it is consistent across platforms too - that will also let the new accept be used in the longer term to make portable code easier. Alan