Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair

From: Ulrich Drepper <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:05 -0700

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:

> To me, it seems overriding 2nd argument is a too ad-hoc workaround,
> and introducing new syscalls with flags is cleaner, e.g.,
>     psocket(family, socktype, protocol, flags);
>     psocketpair(d, type, protocol, int sv[2], flags);

While I agree, you missed the initial discussion where Alan, DaveM, and
Linus expressed preference for this overloading.

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