Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935131AbXFGTMu (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:12:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762068AbXFGTMl (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:12:41 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:2936 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761609AbXFGTMl (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:12:41 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:12:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Ulrich Drepper cc: Eric Dumazet , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 In-Reply-To: <466854CE.8010504@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20070606235906.72439d16@the-village.bc.nu> <20070607001932.35c9591c@the-village.bc.nu> <466741BD.20106@redhat.com> <20070607110432.73be7960@the-village.bc.nu> <4668155B.4020705@redhat.com> <20070607195659.c695c87d.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <46684DED.6000907@redhat.com> <466854CE.8010504@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: 778 Lines: 28 On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Davide Libenzi wrote: > >> And to add to your list: > >> > >> epoll_create(). Important if you think that's the interface people > >> should use. > > > > Can't we leave it as is, and use sys_nonseqfd() for those? So basically: > > The problem is O_CLOEXEC. They are all racy and if we add a variant > with flags then we might as well support O_NONSEQFD as well. Ahh, I forgot the original O_CLOEXEC atomicity. Right. - 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/