From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465F170B.3070603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705311123370.30485@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Isn't this better be a global process flag? Default should be, for legacy
> reasons,
No. Policies are always wrong since it means code that cannot change
the policy (e.g, all runtime libraries) have no access to the
functionality. I cannot set the policy to default to close-on-exit in
glibc all the while the application assumes this is not the case.
- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 18:09 [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2) Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 18:22 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-05-31 18:32 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 18:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 18:42 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2007-05-31 18:46 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 18:53 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 19:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-05-31 19:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 19:50 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 20:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-31 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-01 1:05 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-06-01 1:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-06-01 3:07 ` [parisc-linux] " Kyle McMartin
2007-06-01 3:07 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-01 19:17 ` [parisc-linux] " Byron Stanoszek
2007-06-01 19:17 ` Byron Stanoszek
2007-06-01 22:55 ` [parisc-linux] " Kyle McMartin
2007-06-01 22:55 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-10 2:29 ` dean gaudet
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