Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:03:51 +0900 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 9/10]: Define clone3() syscall |
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On 10/21/2009 01:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > My question here is: what does "3" actually mean? In general, system > calls have not followed any convention of numbering to indicate > successive versions -- clone2() being the one possible exception that > I know of. >
"3" is number of arguments. 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*.
-hpa
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