From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752679Ab2DASgz (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:36:55 -0400 Received: from segfault.kiev.ua ([193.193.193.4]:38155 "EHLO segfault.kiev.ua" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751601Ab2DASgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:36:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 491 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:36:52 EDT Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:28:26 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, drepper@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2) Message-ID: <20120401182825.GJ21084@netch.kiev.ua> References: <20120401125741.GA7484@p183.telecom.by> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120401125741.GA7484@p183.telecom.by> X-42: On Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 15:57:42, adobriyan wrote about "[PATCH] nextfd(2)": > So, don't add closefrom(2), add nextfd(2). > > int nextfd(int fd) Is it really needed here to create syscall? One shall update all arch lists for it. Instead, adding a new option for fcntl() (named e.g. F_NEXTFD) solves for all platforms simultaneously. -netch-