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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] sha1_file: open window into packfiles with O_CLOEXEC
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:36:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfunh4b63.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxdy4maom8byH0FoBBMWx+sQB8J7uWvHOxswjiaAhSjVg@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:19:37 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> But the basic issue still remains - I'd really prefer to have NOATIME
> stay around for all those poor misguided souls that for some reason
> don't like "relatime" or run old kernels. But whether it is with
> O_NOATIME at open time or with F_SETFL, I don't care.

Understood.  

Would the best endgame shape for this function be to open with
O_NOATIME (and retry without), and then add CLOEXEC with fcntl(2)
but ignoring an error from it, I guess?  That would be the closest
to what we historically had, I would think.




  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-24 18:02 [PATCH v2 0/2] Use CLOEXEC to avoid fd leaks larsxschneider
2016-10-24 18:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sha1_file: open window into packfiles with CLOEXEC larsxschneider
2016-10-25 10:27   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-25 16:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-24 18:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] read-cache: make sure file handles are not inherited by child processes larsxschneider
2016-10-24 18:39   ` Eric Wong
2016-10-24 19:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-25 10:33       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-25 17:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-24 19:22   ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-24 19:53     ` Lars Schneider
2016-10-25 21:39       ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-24 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Use CLOEXEC to avoid fd leaks Junio C Hamano
2016-10-25 11:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-25 18:16   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] quick reroll of Lars's git_open() w/ O_CLOEXEC Junio C Hamano
2016-10-25 18:16     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] sha1_file: rename git_open_noatime() to git_open() Junio C Hamano
2016-10-25 18:16     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] sha1_file: open window into packfiles with O_CLOEXEC Junio C Hamano
2016-10-26  4:25       ` Jeff King
2016-10-26 16:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-26 16:47           ` Jeff King
2016-10-26 17:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-26 20:17               ` Jeff King
2016-10-26 21:15                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 10:24                   ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 21:49                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 22:38                     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-27 22:56                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-27 23:09                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-27 23:19                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-27 23:36                             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-27 23:44                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-28  1:08                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28  2:37                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28  5:51                                     ` Eric Wong
2016-10-28 11:11                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-28 16:13                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-28 16:48                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28 17:38                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-28 17:47                                             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-29  1:26                                             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-29  8:25                                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-29 17:06                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-31 17:37                                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-31 13:56                                         ` Jeff King
2016-10-31 17:55                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-31 18:05                                             ` Jeff King
2016-10-28 13:32                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28 13:33                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28  7:51                       ` Jeff King
2016-10-25 18:16     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] read-cache: make sure file handles are not inherited by child processes Junio C Hamano
2016-10-25 21:33       ` Eric Wong
2016-10-25 22:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-25 21:48     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] quick reroll of Lars's git_open() w/ O_CLOEXEC Lars Schneider
2016-10-25 22:56       ` Junio C Hamano

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