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From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	"Pierre Habouzit" <madcoder@debian.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	"Marc Lehmann" <schmorp@schmorp.de>,
	"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Subject: Re: epoll and shared fd's
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:08:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0802280708r26fc88ch5a488eb8bc1227c5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19752.1204206788@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:16:30 +0100, Bodo Eggert said:
>  > Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > >               file  handle  have  been  closed.  This means that
>  > >               even after a file descriptor that is  part  of  an
>  > >               epoll  set has been closed, events may be reported
>  > >               for that file descriptor if other file descriptors
>  > >               referring  to the same underlying file description
>  > >               remain open.
>
>  Is it worth making special mention of the case where a process gets events
>  for a FD that it has closed, because a parent or child process still has
>  an inherited copy of the FD still open?

I'm not sure -- perhaps under a BUGS section?  Did you read my reply
about this point in the thread "Re: epoll design problems with common
fork/exec patterns"?

Cheers,

Michael


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-28 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2008-02-26 18:16             ` epoll and shared fd's Bodo Eggert
2008-02-28 12:10               ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-02-28 19:17                 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-02-28 19:30                   ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-28 13:53               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-28 15:08                 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2008-02-28 19:27                 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-01-18 13:43 Pierre Habouzit
2008-01-18 21:10 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-01-24  8:40   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-01-24 23:57     ` Davide Libenzi
2008-01-26  7:37       ` Michael Kerrisk
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801261308270.10472@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
2008-02-26 15:13           ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-02-26 19:04             ` Davide Libenzi
2008-02-26 19:14               ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-02-26 19:31                 ` Davide Libenzi

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