Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Some programs - legitimately, I think - scan /proc/self/fd to close
> everything.  The question is whether the glibc-private fds should appear
> there.  And something like a "close-on-fork" flag might be useful,
> though I guess glibc can keep track of its own fds closely enough to not
> need something like that.

Sure. I think there are things we can do (like make the non-linear fd's 
appear somewhere else, and make them close-on-exec by default etc).

And it's not like it's necessarily at all the only way to do things. 

I just threw it out as a possible solution - and one that is almost 
certainly *superior* to trying to work around the fd thing with some 
shared memory area which has tons of much more serious problems of its own 
(*).

		Linus

(*) Ranging from: specialized-only interfaces, inability to pass it 
around, lack of any abstraction interfaces, and almost impossible to 
debug. The security implications of kernel and user space sharing 
read-write access to some shared area are also legion!
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