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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Cc: bug-coreutils <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:18:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdk5wnww.fsf@meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5df85930908300412lc2f334dle4502492b25827f5@mail.gmail.com> (James Youngman's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:12:42 +0100")

James Youngman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blake<ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
>> The name proposed in this mail is O_NOSTD (implying that a successful
>> result will not be any of the standard file descriptors); other ideas
>> mentioned on the bug-gnulib list were O_SAFER, O_NONSTD, O_NOSTDFD.
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-08/msg00358.html
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Mostly yes,  I like it.
>
> I'd like to explicitly vote against O_SAFER, because there may be (for
> some systems or in the future) some other way of making open(2) safer.
>   I'd vote positively for O_NOSTDFD or O_NOSTD.

I like this addition, too.
However, I would prefer O_NOSTDFD,
since O_NOSTD evokes "non-standard".

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-30 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24 12:22 [RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD Eric Blake
2009-08-25 12:16 ` [PATCH] open: introduce O_NOSTD Eric Blake
2009-08-25 21:53   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 13:54     ` Eric Blake
2009-08-27 14:22       ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-08-28 12:28         ` Eric Blake
2009-08-27 14:35       ` Florian Weimer
2009-08-28 12:45         ` Eric Blake
2009-08-28 12:52           ` Florian Weimer
2009-08-28 12:58             ` Eric Blake
2009-08-28 13:04             ` Eric Blake
2009-08-27 22:55       ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 23:11         ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-08-30 11:12 ` [RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD James Youngman
2009-08-30 11:18   ` Jim Meyering [this message]

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