Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair

[Ulrich Drepper]

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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / åèèæ wrote:

> To me, it seems overriding 2nd argument is a too ad-hoc workaround,
> and introducing new syscalls with flags is cleaner, e.g.,
>     psocket(family, socktype, protocol, flags);
>     psocketpair(d, type, protocol, int sv[2], flags);

While I agree, you missed the initial discussion where Alan, DaveM, and
Linus expressed preference for this overloading.

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