> - I decided against using the O_* flags here.  Most are not useful and
>   we might need the bits for something else at some time.  Hence the
>   new SOCKFL_* flag.  The intend is to define SOCKFL_CLOEXEC and
>   O_CLOEXEC to the same value.  In this case there is zero overhead.

Given we will never have 2^32 socket types, and in a sense this is part
of the type why not just use

	socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, ...)

that would be far far cleaner, no new syscalls on the socket side at all.

Alan
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