From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Brauner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 15:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20200516132918.edq7p2tyh6elorjm@wittgenstein> References: <20200515152321.9280-1-nate.karstens@garmin.com> <20200515155730.GF16070@bombadil.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200515155730.GF16070@bombadil.infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Nate Karstens , Alexander Viro , Jeff Layton , "J. Bruce Fields" , Arnd Bergmann , Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Matt Turner , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , David Laight , 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 On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 08:57:30AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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. Yeah. But also, stuff like this should really be on linux-api. Christian