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Date:	Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:07:26 -0700
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
CC:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

(4/4/12 9:43 AM), Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:38, KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>  wrote:
>> As far as I understand, any major open source project don't use
>> posix_spawn().
>> Please remind, I'm talking about real world issue.
>
> This doesn't mean they shouldn't.  If you require code to be changed
> anyway let them change to something which doesn't require more cruft
> in the kernel.  The limitations you cited are irrelevant for
> posix_spawn.  And perhaps there will be actually spawn support in the
> kernel which would make dealing with OOM situations and non-overcommit
> much easier.

Umm... I'm sorry. I haven't catch why OOM is related topic. Could you please
elaborate more?


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