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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: add close()/closedir() calls when needed
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:29:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100107212912.GB10344@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1262882447-23776-1-git-send-email-a.beregalov@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:40:46PM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:

> Close file and directory descriptors before exiting or dying.

Your patch description doesn't say why that's a good thing to do, and
it's not obvious to me at least.  Please explain the motivation in
your patch description.

Paul.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07 16:40 Alexander Beregalov
2010-01-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: fix memory leak: counterwidth Alexander Beregalov
2010-01-13 10:35   ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Fix " tip-bot for Alexander Beregalov
2010-01-07 21:29 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2010-01-07 22:44   ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: add close()/closedir() calls when needed Alexander Beregalov
2010-01-07 23:54     ` H. Peter Anvin

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