linux-kernel - Re: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

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Message-ID: <46FD46B4.9050401@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:23:48 -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>
Subject: Re: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> I think new system calls would have been a cleaner way to accomplish this. 
> The "small pill at a time" may have better chance to go in, but will 
> likely result in an uglier userspace interface.

We'd need this call anyway since neither dup nor dup2 provides the
functionality of F_DUPFD (but F_DUPFD can be used to implement dup).

For dup2() I will wait until we have a sys_indirect implementation.
I'll try to get this soon.

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