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From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Ben <linux-kernel-junk-email@slimyhorror.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: epoll and fork()
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:42:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040302154202.GA24226@mark.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403021224520.20736@baphomet.bogo.bogus>

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:31:20PM +0000, Ben wrote:
> Is there a defined behaviour for what happens when a process with an epoll
> fd forks?

You found it. :-)

> I've an app that inherits an epoll fd from its parent, and then
> unregisters some file descriptors from the epoll set. This seems to have
> the nasty side effect of unregistering the same file descriptors from the
> parent process as well. Surely this can't be right?

The epoll fd should probably be closed after the fork(), re-allocated,
and then initialized to contain the file descriptors that you want to
watch.

mark

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-02 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-02 12:31 Ben
2004-03-02 12:59 ` Mihai RUSU
2004-03-02 13:20   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-02 14:02     ` Mihai RUSU
2004-03-02 15:42 ` Mark Mielke [this message]

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