On 10/22/2009 07:26 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
"3" is number of arguments.
sys_clone3(struct clone_struct __user *ucs, pid_t __user *pids)
It appears to me that the number of arguments is 2.
It was 3 at one point... I'm not sure when that changed last :-/
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*.
I'm not sure why you think including a number in the name tells us
"how much more than". Unless you are considering the numbering to be
version numbers, which apparently is not what you mean.
It is a version number of sorts.
-hpa
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