Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Isn't this better be a global process flag? Default should be, for legacy
> reasons,

No.  Policies are always wrong since it means code that cannot change
the policy (e.g, all runtime libraries) have no access to the
functionality.  I cannot set the policy to default to close-on-exit in
glibc all the while the application assumes this is not the case.

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