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 |
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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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