Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Thu May 31 2007 - 15:51:15 EST


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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.

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