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Message-ID: <465F170B.3070603@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:19 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Isn't this better be a global process flag? Default should be, for legacy
> reasons,
No. Policies are always wrong since it means code that cannot change
the policy (e.g, all runtime libraries) have no access to the
functionality. I cannot set the policy to default to close-on-exit in
glibc all the while the application assumes this is not the case.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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