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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/6] Allow setting FD_CLOEXEC flag for new sockets
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474320C4.2040600@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711200653.lAK6rE31025888@devserv.devel.redhat.com>


> +union indirect_params {
> +  struct {
> +    int flags;
> +  } file_flags;
> +};

Have you given thought to having to perform compat translation on this?
  Today it's only copied directly from the user pointer into the union
in the task_struct.

I'd love if we could only use fixed-width fields in the interface to
avoid the compat nonsense.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20  6:53 [PATCHv4 4/6] Allow setting FD_CLOEXEC flag for new sockets Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-20 18:00 ` Zach Brown [this message]
2007-11-20 18:07   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-20 18:15     ` Zach Brown

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