Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:38:51 +0900 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall |
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On 10/22/2009 07:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> >> "3" is number of arguments. > > sys_clone3(struct clone_struct __user *ucs, pid_t __user *pids) > > It appears to me that the number of arguments is 2. >
It was 3 at one point... I'm not sure when that changed last :-/
>> It's better than "extended" or something like >> that simply because "extended" just means "more than", and a number at least >> tells you *how much more than*. > > I'm not sure why you think including a number in the name tells us > "how much more than". Unless you are considering the numbering to be > version numbers, which apparently is not what you mean.
It is a version number of sorts.
-hpa
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