Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork

Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-15T15:57:50Z

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?