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

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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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.

I was talking for a broader usage, not only glibc centric. Most ppl
writing MT+exec apps wants all but (eventually) and handfull of files
leaking across the exec boundary.



- Davide


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