From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Matthew Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/18] flag parameters: epoll_create
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:41:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805061540560.25162@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210107990.7323.347.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matthew Helsley wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:42 -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > This patch adds the new epoll_create2 syscall. It extends the old epoll_create
> > syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this
> > patch the only flag support is EPOLL_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec
> > flag for the returned file descriptor to be set.
>
> Davide, Ulrich,
>
> A minor question: Why did you choose to pass the seemingly useless
> "size" parameter into the new epoll_create2 system call? I did some
> googling for previous threads with this series and couldn't find a
> discussion on why you chose to keep it.
The very first implementations were using an hash, and that was a size
hint.
- Davide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 3:42 Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-05 4:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-05-06 21:06 ` Matthew Helsley
2008-05-06 22:41 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2008-05-06 23:10 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-05-06 23:20 ` Davide Libenzi
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