From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dup2() vs dup3() inconsistency when
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:31:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EE6A2B.8030005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EE3D84.6000003@zytor.com>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The dup2() behavior comes from the logical consequence of dup2()'s
> "close on reuse"; one would think it would be logical for dup3() to
> behave the same way.
No. We deliberately decided on this change. Otherwise, what is the
result of dup3(fd, fd, O_CLOEXEC)? There is no reason to use
dup2(fd,fd), so why the hell somebody wants to defend this is beyond me.
- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 12:10 dup2() vs dup3() inconsistency when Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-09 17:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-09 20:31 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2008-10-09 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-09 20:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-10-09 20:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-09 21:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-10-10 5:04 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-10 12:09 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-10-10 12:15 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-10 13:02 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-10-10 13:15 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-10 13:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-10-10 5:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-10 13:43 ` Heikki Orsila
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2008-10-10 11:42 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-10 11:59 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-10 13:19 ` Bodo Eggert
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