From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758608AbYDXM1n (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:27:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758011AbYDXM1b (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:27:31 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:42882 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758018AbYDXM1a (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:27:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=mLpKsxd1Y1VTpPVl3S8Jds0B79fy/nDmSWAsX+MArxBo4Dh5NOZ/jRFC/sCfazjRRKN6HEbniQrl5yXjuHXfOv+3swUDxarspl8buhQmM4Q4bD+MbKdNxSLtIWACV4oi2bLpUQHoZyccbqBDhr+ZoZ0Kbgptci5A7pbrkzZ3uu4= Message-ID: <517f3f820804240527l66e4372dt9d6cdc293e35899d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:27:28 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Ulrich Drepper" Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <200804240403.m3O43us8028699@devserv.devel.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200804240403.m3O43us8028699@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: eb3440611afc3450 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/24/08, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > The alternative to using sys_indirect is to create a whole bunch of new > syscalls. Here the beginning. These are the socket interfaces which > create file descriptors and therefore need a flags parameter to let > the caller decide about setting the close-on-exit bit. Ulrich, Could you please CC me on patches that make kernel-userland API changes. Cheers, Michael