Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 4 May 2008 21:43:57 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Davide Libenzi <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/18] flag parameters: signalfd | |
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> This patch adds the new signalfd4 syscall. It extends the old signalfd
> syscall by one parameter which is meant to hold a flag value. In this
> patch the only flag support is SFD_CLOEXEC which causes the close-on-exec
> flag for the returned file descriptor to be set.
>
> A new flag SFD_CLOEXEC is used instead of reusing O_CLOEXEC to prevent
> exhaustion of the int bit field in case we need more flags.
>
> The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
> x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
- Davide
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