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

Christian Brauner
2020-05-16T13:29:52Z

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