From: Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:04:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4810AF9F.5040705@redhat.com> References: <200804240403.m3O43us8028699@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080424112514.055d8071@the-village.bc.nu> <481096C3.2020206@redhat.com> <20080424152436.6cf53c1b@the-village.bc.nu> <4810A46B.1090809@redhat.com> <20080424160352.30f2dd5b@the-village.bc.nu> <4810AB29.5030604@redhat.com> <20080424162703.1eec01a2@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45270 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754823AbYDXQFF (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:05:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080424162703.1eec01a2@the-village.bc.nu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Cox wrote: > Believe it or not we have the compute capability between us to not > accidentally reassign values we assigned to one thing to something el= se. Once again, this is not about assigned values. This is about the time before you get a value assigned. Not every experiment out there will have a value assigned before it starts development. But it really doesn't matter to me. I'm not the one you would introduce the problem. Patch is forthcoming. >> Oh really? You open a server socket, use fcntl(FD_CLOEXEC), and the= n >> accept().=20 >=20 > And your behaviour just became OS specific.... Not according to POSIX. If some OSes deliberately violate POSIX that's their problem. All POSIX OSes will have up to today return a new file descriptor without the close-on-exec flag set at all times. Just read the spec. - -- =E2=9E=A7 Ulrich Drepper =E2=9E=A7 Red Hat, Inc. =E2=9E=A7 444 Castro S= t =E2=9E=A7 Mountain View, CA =E2=9D=96 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIEK+f2ijCOnn/RHQRAtYRAJ9Ve9XSkMriqkHkiCL00wsXzJJbYgCgmqzQ 3uexpcjM0NvU7qgngOs7LDA=3D =3DuNKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----