Re: [PATCH v2] eventfd, signalfd, timerfd, epoll_create w/flags

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > unsigned int oflags_remap(const struct oflags_rmap *m, int n,
> > 			  int f, int *rf)
> > {
> > 	int i;
> > 	for (i = 0, *rf = 0; i < n; i++, m++)
> > 		if (f & m->f) {
> > 			*rf |= m->of;
> > 			f &= ~m->f;
> > 		}
> > 	return f ? -EINVAL: 0;
> > }
> 
> This will be more expensive in terms of code and runtime.  Plus: who
> knows whether there will really be other flags which can be used like
> this?  I think it's overkill to do this.  If at some point there are
> more flags which are handled the same way one could do something like
> this but I don't think it's necessary now.

There are already, not one, not two, not three, but four call sites where 
an aweful cut&paste is used to basically do the same thing. And probably 
there's another one you likely did for the sockets.




- Davide