Re: [PATCH] open: introduce O_NOSTD

Florian Weimer
2009-08-28T12:53:02Z

* Eric Blake:

> Your version fails to clear the cloexec bit of the final fd if the
> original caller didn't request O_CLOEXEC.

Okay, but you can fix that in a race-free manner (but I thought that
this was implied by open_safer).

> If the caller requested O_CLOEXEC, then your version takes 3, 5, or
> 7 syscalls depending on how many std fds were closed, while my
> version takes 3 syscalls regardless of how many std fds were closed.

I really don't see a way around that. You can't pick a descriptor and
hope that it's unused.

> Also, your suggestion has a definite race in that you are calling
> open() multiple times rather than cloning an existing fd after the
> first open(), such that another process could alter which file is
> visited between your first and last open().

Sure, but this is an unobservable differen.ce

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