Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:25:14 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1 |
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> - I decided against using the O_* flags here. Most are not useful and > we might need the bits for something else at some time. Hence the > new SOCKFL_* flag. The intend is to define SOCKFL_CLOEXEC and > O_CLOEXEC to the same value. In this case there is zero overhead.
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, ...)
that would be far far cleaner, no new syscalls on the socket side at all.
Alan
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