Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:27:22 -0700 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eventfd, signalfd, timerfd, epoll_create w/flags |
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Ok, I asked this myself for about ten minutes, than I gave up. But why > sys_epoll_createp() instead of sys_epoll_create2()? There MUST be a reason > to deviate from the standard of all the other ones...
I used the number at the end for syscalls which aren't visible at userlevel. There they are useful indicating the number of arguments. At userlevel I personally find it less than optimal but I'd have no problem changing it to epoll_create2.
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