Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759376AbXEaUXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 16:23:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750947AbXEaUXb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 16:23:31 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:4140 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbXEaUXa (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 16:23:30 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:23:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Ulrich Drepper cc: Jakub Jelinek , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2) In-Reply-To: <465F270B.5090604@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <200705311809.l4VI9F9X009556@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <465F170B.3070603@redhat.com> <20070531190235.GY4033@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <465F270B.5090604@redhat.com> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 28 On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----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. 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 - 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/