Re: [PATCH 2/2] ppc: kvm: use anon_inode_getfd() with O_CLOEXEC flag

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Aug 26 2013 - 04:29:16 EST


Il 26/08/2013 10:23, Yann Droneaud ha scritto:
>
> Sounds a lot like InfiniBand subsystem behavor: IB file descriptors
> are of no use accross exec() since memory mappings tied to those fds
> won't be available in the new process:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/8/380
> http://mid.gmane.org/f58540dc64fec1ac0e496dfcd3cc1af7@xxxxxxxx

Yes, it is very similar.

Paolo
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