Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] first use of sys_indirect system call

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Fri Nov 16 2007 - 13:20:19 EST


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dean gaudet wrote:
> honestly i think there should be a per-task flag which indicates whether
> fds are by default F_CLOEXEC or not. my reason: third party libraries.

Only somebody who thinks exclusively about applications as opposed to
runtimes/libraries can say something like that. Library writers don't
have the luxury of being able to modify any global state. This has all
been discussed here before.

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