From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:23:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705311320310.30485@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465F270B.5090604@redhat.com>
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > What I meant, was that the vast majority of MT+exec
> > apps wants all their fds (but an handfull, maybe)
>
> You never listen when you are told something. Such a statement cannot
> be made. The application doesn't know what the runtime libraries need
> (not just libc, libstdc++, libxml, whatever) and vice versa. Policies
> are always wrong for somebody and changing the standardized behavior is
> not acceptable.
I do always listen when you make a good point. And this is a good one.
Some libraries might not like a global behaviour change, I agree.
- Davide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 18:09 Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 18:22 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-05-31 18:32 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 18:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 18:42 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 18:46 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 18:53 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 19:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-05-31 19:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-31 19:50 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 20:23 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2007-05-31 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-31 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-01 1:05 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-06-01 1:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-06-01 3:07 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-01 19:17 ` Byron Stanoszek
2007-06-01 22:55 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-10 2:29 ` dean gaudet
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