Messages in this thread | | | From | Jim Meyering <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD | Date | Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:18:07 +0200 |
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James Youngman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blake<ebb9@byu.net> wrote: >> The name proposed in this mail is O_NOSTD (implying that a successful >> result will not be any of the standard file descriptors); other ideas >> mentioned on the bug-gnulib list were O_SAFER, O_NONSTD, O_NOSTDFD. >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-08/msg00358.html >> >> Thoughts? > > Mostly yes, I like it. > > I'd like to explicitly vote against O_SAFER, because there may be (for > some systems or in the future) some other way of making open(2) safer. > I'd vote positively for O_NOSTDFD or O_NOSTD.
I like this addition, too. However, I would prefer O_NOSTDFD, since O_NOSTD evokes "non-standard".
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