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From: Alan Cox
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 7:24 am

> I don't think this is a viable approach because it is not about the

There are only a small number of valid socket types recognized by POSIX
plus a few BSD plus a few Linux ones so Linux can happily assign the
upper bits for a different purpose.


Every other property of a socket via accept() is inherited from the
parent. Making one property different would be bizarre and ugly.

Alan
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[PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Wed Apr 23, 9:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 3:25 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 5:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 5:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, David Collier-Brown, (Thu Apr 24, 5:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 7:18 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 7:24 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 7:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 7:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 8:03 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 8:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 8:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 8:19 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 8:24 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 8:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Apr 24, 8:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 8:38 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, David Miller, (Thu Apr 24, 8:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 8:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Jakub Jelinek, (Thu Apr 24, 8:44 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 8:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 8:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, David Miller, (Thu Apr 24, 9:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 9:03 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 9:04 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 9:06 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, David Miller, (Thu Apr 24, 9:09 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Apr 24, 9:30 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 9:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Michael Kerrisk, (Thu Apr 24, 9:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Thu Apr 24, 9:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 9:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Apr 24, 10:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Apr 24, 10:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Apr 24, 10:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1, dean gaudet, (Sat Apr 26, 3:41 pm)