Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 31 May 2007 13:23:29 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Davide Libenzi <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2) |
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On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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.
I do always listen when you make a good point. And this is a good one. Some libraries might not like a global behaviour change, I agree.
- Davide
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