From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755285AbYEEEoT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 00:44:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752029AbYEEEoA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 00:44:00 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:46957 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751759AbYEEEn7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 00:43:59 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 21:43:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Ulrich Drepper cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] flag parameters: signalfd In-Reply-To: <200805050342.m453gkRB029826@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <200805050342.m453gkRB029826@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > This patch adds the new signalfd4 syscall. It extends the old signalfd > syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this > patch the only flag support is SFD_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec > flag for the returned file descriptor to be set. > > A new flag SFD_CLOEXEC is used instead of reusing O_CLOEXEC to prevent > exhaustion of the int bit field in case we need more flags. > > The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and > x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed. > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper Acked-by: Davide Libenzi - Davide