Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:19:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2 |
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Linus Torvalds a écrit : > > > > close(0); > > close(1); > > close(2); > > .. generate filenames, whatever .. > > if (open(..) < 0 || open(..) < 0 || open(..) < 0) > > die("Couldn't redirect stdin/stdout/stderr"); > > > > and there's absolutely nothing wrong with this kind of setup, even if you > > could obviously have done it other ways too (ie by using "dup2()" instead of > > "close + open"), > > This kind of setup was OK 25 years ago, before multithreading era. > You cannot reasonably expect it to work in a multithreaded program.
Who said _anything_ about threading?
The above is a totally non-threaded app. 99% of all applications are like that.
Threading is for the 1%. But 99% is what we need to make sure works.
Linus
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