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DateThu, 31 May 2007 13:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
FromDavide Libenzi <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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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.

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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