From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: O_CLOEXEC / MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC documentation
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:38:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906133858.19080@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a36005b50709060434u35d8db01n7cc448e98fdbdd37@mail.gmail.com>
Ulrich,
> On 9/5/07, Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> wrote:
> > O_CLOEXEC (Since Linux 2.6.23)
> > Enable the close-on-exec flag for the new file
> > descriptor. This is useful in multithreaded programs
> > since using a separate fcntl(2) F_SETFD operation to
> > set the FD_CLOEXEC flag does not suffice to avoid race
> > conditions in multithreaded programs where one thread
> > opens a file descriptor at the same time as another
> > thread does a fork(2) plus execve(2).
>
> Correct,
Good. Thanks.
> although you might want to reconsider the repetition of "in
> multithreaded programs".
Yes.
> Plus, it's also useful in other programs since it avoids the
> additional system call to fcntl.
Okay, I may add some words about this.
Cheers,
Michael
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 23:20 + introduce-o_cloexec-take-2.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2007-09-05 19:02 ` O_CLOEXEC / MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC documentation Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-06 11:34 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-06 13:38 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
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