From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755951AbYEEEvL (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 00:51:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752057AbYEEEuz (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 00:50:55 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:51637 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751759AbYEEEuy (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 00:50:54 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 21:50:52 -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 07/18] flag parameters: timerfd_create In-Reply-To: <200805050342.m453gkOX029832@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <200805050342.m453gkOX029832@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: > The timerfd_create syscall already has a flags parameter. It just is > unused so far. This patch changes this by introducing the TFD_CLOEXEC > flag to set the close-on-exec flag for the returned file descriptor. > > A new flag TFD_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