linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Introduce O

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Message-ID: <465F270B.5090604@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 12:50:35 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
CC:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	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:
> What I meant, was that the vast majority of MT+exec 
> apps wants all their fds (but an handfull, maybe)

You never listen when you are told something.  Such a statement cannot
be made.  The application doesn't know what the runtime libraries need
(not just libc, libstdc++, libxml, whatever) and vice versa.  Policies
are always wrong for somebody and changing the standardized behavior is
not acceptable.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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