From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762212AbYDXQAp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757545AbYDXQAK (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:10 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55879 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751623AbYDXQAI (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080424.090008.232544945.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: jakub@redhat.com, drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080424162444.1c5b9ba2@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20080424160352.30f2dd5b@the-village.bc.nu> <20080424154441.GG2255@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080424162444.1c5b9ba2@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Cox Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:24:44 +0100 > BTW in 4.4BSD and derivatives if I remember rightly F_CLOEXEC *is* > inherited across accept() so I doubt any user space software will be too > upset by such a shift. It actually doesn't. Just like in Linux, no file descriptor flags are inherited.