Re: [PATCH 08/18] flag parameters: epoll_create

[Matthew Helsley]

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.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

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