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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 08:57:30 -0700
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Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>, "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>, a.josey@opengroup.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Nate Karstens wrote:
> Series of 4 patches to implement close-on-fork. Tests have been
> published to https://github.com/nkarstens/ltp/tree/close-on-fork
> and cover close-on-fork functionality in the following syscalls:

[...]

> This functionality was approved by the Austin Common Standards
> Revision Group for inclusion in the next revision of the POSIX
> standard (see issue 1318 in the Austin Group Defect Tracker).

NAK to this patch series, and the entire concept.

Is there a way to persuade POSIX that they made a bad decision by
standardising this mess?