Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Side note: it might not even be a "close-on-exec by default" thing: it 
> might well be a *always* close-on-exec.
>
> That COE is pretty horrid to do, we need to scan a bitmap of those things 
> on each exec. So it migth be totally sensible to just declare that the 
> non-linear fd's would simply always be "local", and never bleed across an 
> execve).

Hm, I wouldn't limit the mechanism prematurely.  Using Valgrind as an
example of an alternate user of this mechanism, it would be useful to
use a pipe to transmit out-of-band information from an exec-er to an
exec-ee process.  At the moment there's a lot mucking around with
execve() to transmit enough information from the parent valgrind to its
successor.

    J