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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:38:31 -0700
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	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
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(4/4/12 4:51 AM), Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 19:56, H. Peter Anvin<hpa@zytor.com>  wrote:
>>
>> You can deal with this in one of two ways:
>>
>> 2. Fix your malloc().
>> 1. Use the low level open()/getdents()/close() functions instead of
>>    opendir()/readdir()/closedir().
>
> And if their is concern about using opendir() then we can add
> something to posix_spawn.  And attribute like POSIX_SPAWN_CLOSEALL and
> you then would have to explicitly add dup and open requests for the
> descriptors you want to have open.

As far as I understand, any major open source project don't use posix_spawn().
Please remind, I'm talking about real world issue.