Re: [PATCH 08/18] flag parameters: epoll_create

[Michael Kerrisk]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Matthew Helsley wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.

So, why not simply remove this argument in the new API, since it is now useless?
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