Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 2020 08:57:30 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork |
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On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Nate Karstens wrote: > Series of 4 patches to implement close-on-fork. Tests have been > published to https://github.com/nkarstens/ltp/tree/close-on-fork > and cover close-on-fork functionality in the following syscalls:
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> This functionality was approved by the Austin Common Standards > Revision Group for inclusion in the next revision of the POSIX > standard (see issue 1318 in the Austin Group Defect Tracker).
NAK to this patch series, and the entire concept.
Is there a way to persuade POSIX that they made a bad decision by standardising this mess?
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