From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/6] Allow setting FD_CLOEXEC flag for new sockets
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474320C4.2040600@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711200653.lAK6rE31025888@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
> +union indirect_params {
> + struct {
> + int flags;
> + } file_flags;
> +};
Have you given thought to having to perform compat translation on this?
Today it's only copied directly from the user pointer into the union
in the task_struct.
I'd love if we could only use fixed-width fields in the interface to
avoid the compat nonsense.
- z
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-20 6:53 [PATCHv4 4/6] Allow setting FD_CLOEXEC flag for new sockets Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-20 18:00 ` Zach Brown [this message]
2007-11-20 18:07 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-20 18:15 ` Zach Brown
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