Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:08:56 +0100 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: epoll and shared fd's |
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:16:30 +0100, Bodo Eggert said: > > Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> 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?
I'm not sure -- perhaps under a BUGS section? Did you read my reply about this point in the thread "Re: epoll design problems with common fork/exec patterns"?
Cheers,
Michael
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