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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:19:07 -0800
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
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To: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
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       tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] first use of sys_indirect system call
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dean gaudet wrote:
> honestly i think there should be a per-task flag which indicates whether 
> fds are by default F_CLOEXEC or not.  my reason:  third party libraries.

Only somebody who thinks exclusively about applications as opposed to
runtimes/libraries can say something like that.  Library writers don't
have the luxury of being able to modify any global state.  This has all
been discussed here before.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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