Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:28:26PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>  Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 15:57:42, adobriyan wrote about "[PATCH] nextfd(2)": 
> 
> > So, don't add closefrom(2), add nextfd(2).
> > 
> > 	int nextfd(int fd)
> 
> Is it really needed here to create syscall? One shall update all arch
> lists for it. Instead, adding a new option for fcntl() (named e.g.
> F_NEXTFD) solves for all platforms simultaneously.

This is not a problem, build system even checks for not yet added syscalls.
Explicit syscall is better than multiplexer.
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