Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760234AbYB1PFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754156AbYB1PF1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:05:27 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:39811 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754350AbYB1PF1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:05:27 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: 7eggert@gmx.de Cc: Michael Kerrisk , Davide Libenzi , Pierre Habouzit , lkml , Eric Dumazet , Marc Lehmann , David Schwartz Subject: Re: epoll and shared fd's In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:16:30 +0100." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <9MZLT-1YO-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <9N6Ng-5tn-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <9P5WE-33i-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <9Pk9l-1KA-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <9PNNZ-b0-5@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1204206788_3291P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:53:08 -0500 Message-ID: <19752.1204206788@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1316 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1204206788_3291P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:16:30 +0100, Bodo Eggert said: > Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > file handle have been closed. This means that > > even after a file descriptor that is part of an > > epoll set has been closed, events may be reported > > for that file descriptor if other file descriptors > > referring to the same underlying file description > > remain open. Is it worth making special mention of the case where a process gets events for a FD that it has closed, because a parent or child process still has an inherited copy of the FD still open? --==_Exmh_1204206788_3291P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHxrzEcC3lWbTT17ARAkU2AKC03aYkoketvvttb5jSP/t7WmIN4QCg/edR dV/EcKfw7Hw8h6n3iyHwGSA= =atFQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1204206788_3291P-- -- 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/