Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:36 -0800 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv4 4/6] Allow setting FD_CLOEXEC flag for new sockets |
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> +union indirect_params { > + struct { > + int flags; > + } file_flags; > +};
Have you given thought to having to perform compat translation on this? Today it's only copied directly from the user pointer into the union in the task_struct.
I'd love if we could only use fixed-width fields in the interface to avoid the compat nonsense.
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