On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matthew Helsley wrote:

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> 
> 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.

The very first implementations were using an hash, and that was a size 
hint.



- Davide


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