netdev - Re: [PATCH] reintroduce accept4

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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:24:06 -0500
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	drepper@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, davidel@...ilserver.org,
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	hch@....de, davem@...emloft.net, alan@...hat.com, jakub@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reintroduce accept4

>> Andrew, you noted a lack of explanation accompanying the original
>> patch.  Here's something to fill the gap, and which may be suitable
>> for the changelog.
>>
>> ==
>> Introduce a new accept4() system call.  The addition of this system
>> call matches analogous changes in 2.6.27 (dup3(), evenfd2(),
>> signalfd4(), inotify_init1(), epoll_create1(), pipe2()) which added
>> new system calls that differed from analogous traditional system calls
>> in adding a flags argument that can be used to access additional
>> functionality. The accept4() system call is exactly the same as
>> accept(), except that it adds a flags bit-mask argument.  Two flags
>> are initially implemented.  (Most of the new system calls in 2.6.27
>> also had both of these flags.)  SOCK_CLOEXEC causes the close-on-exec
>> (FD_CLOEXEC) flag to be enabled for the new file descriptor returned
>> by accept4().  This is a useful security feature to avoid leaking
>> information in a multithreaded program where one thread is doing an
>> accept() at the same time as another thread is doing a fork() plus
>> exec().  (More details here:
>> http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html "Secure File Descriptor
>> Handling", Ulrich Drepper)  The other flag is SOCK_NONBLOCK, which
>> causes the O_NONBLOCK flag to be enabled on the new open file
>> description created by accept4().  (This flag is merely a convenience,
>> saving the use of additional calls fcntl(F_GETFL) and fcntl (F_SETFL)
>> to achieve the same result.)
>
> I replaced the existing changelog with the above (plus some paragraph
> breaks ;)).  Will add the new test app when it comes along.

Git allows paragraph breaks in changelogs?!  You gotta love technology ;-).

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