Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755615AbXFGLXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:23:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751626AbXFGLXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:23:16 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47729 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751510AbXFGLXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:23:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:27:46 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Davide Libenzi , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ulrich Drepper , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 Message-ID: <20070607122746.46f226fe@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070607124505.2d829b9b.dada1@cosmosbay.com> References: <20070606235906.72439d16@the-village.bc.nu> <20070607001932.35c9591c@the-village.bc.nu> <20070607110623.53322dae@the-village.bc.nu> <20070607124505.2d829b9b.dada1@cosmosbay.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 16 > Alan, prctl() things are usually inherited at fork()/exec() time. You want them inherited at fork time. > If you fork() from a new application , then exec an old one > (eventually a statically linked program), we have a problem ? Only if you decide not to reset the value. There are lots of things we do inherit and lots we don't. Alan - 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/