From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:29:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804240828100.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080424112514.055d8071@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Given we will never have 2^32 socket types, and in a sense this is part
> of the type why not just use
>
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, ...)
Ok, I have to admit that I find this very appealing. It looks much
cleaner, but perhaps more importantly, it also looks both readable _and_
easier to use for the user-space programmer.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 4:03 Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 10:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 12:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-24 14:49 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 15:19 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 15:05 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-24 14:18 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 14:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 15:16 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 15:03 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 15:44 ` Jakub Jelinek
2008-04-24 15:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 16:00 ` David Miller
2008-04-24 15:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 16:09 ` David Miller
2008-04-24 16:45 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-26 22:41 ` dean gaudet
2008-04-24 15:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 16:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 16:06 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-24 16:49 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-04-24 15:29 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-04-24 15:39 ` David Miller
2008-04-24 16:03 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-24 15:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 16:48 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-24 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 17:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-24 16:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-04-24 12:27 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-24 12:46 ` David Collier-Brown
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