Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759935AbXEaTu7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 15:50:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756781AbXEaTuv (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 15:50:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38645 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756095AbXEaTuv (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 15:50:51 -0400 Message-ID: <465F270B.5090604@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:50:35 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi CC: Jakub Jelinek , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2) References: <200705311809.l4VI9F9X009556@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <465F170B.3070603@redhat.com> <20070531190235.GY4033@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 27 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGXycL2ijCOnn/RHQRAvPfAJ9r77oMkReyf4OG2rVPaFNb5TIYfgCgwp8e mvswKBbe1UlrzlG3oOWYswM= =viNa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/