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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: add FD_CLOFORK and O_CLOFORK
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 08:29:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304749754.2821.712.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=tZf1uQig8A-WiXUpSWcuqaqV=fg@mail.gmail.com>

Le samedi 07 mai 2011 à 14:22 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :

> It seems more clear. Thanks.
> 
> BTW: I will work on F_CLOSFD after this patch accepted. It is useful
> to close all the opened file descriptors when programing a daemon.
> 

I am sure the following idea already was discussed in the past :

Embed the close_on_exec / close_on_close bits in the low order bits of
file pointers.

Might be interesting to raise it again.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-07  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-07  4:49 [PATCH] fs: add FD_CLOFORK and O_CLOFORK Changli Gao
2011-05-07  5:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-07  5:25   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-07 10:09   ` Changli Gao
2011-05-07  6:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-07  6:06   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-07  6:22   ` Changli Gao
2011-05-07  6:29     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-05-07 10:10       ` Changli Gao
2011-05-07 11:41       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-07 12:32         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-07 12:32           ` Eric Dumazet

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