Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

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

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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).

Side note: it might not even be a "close-on-exec by default" thing: it 
might well be a *always* close-on-exec.

That COE is pretty horrid to do, we need to scan a bitmap of those things 
on each exec. So it migth be totally sensible to just declare that the 
non-linear fd's would simply always be "local", and never bleed across an 
execve).

			Linus
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