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On 4/24/08, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > But this approach fixes just one of the interfaces.  There are 7 or 8
>  > other interfaces that need to solve the same problem.  What about
>  > those?
>
>
> Actually it seems to fix most of them.

Am I missingg something?  How?  There a number of system calls that
have neither a flags argument, nor another argument that we can
overload (as you propose with socket()).  For those, we'd need new
system calls os sys_indirect().

> I accept Jakub's observation we
>  need a "paccept()" or similar.

True, that would be nice.