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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Isn't this better be a global process flag? Default should be, for legacy
> reasons,
No. Policies are always wrong since it means code that cannot change
the policy (e.g, all runtime libraries) have no access to the
functionality. I cannot set the policy to default to close-on-exit in
glibc all the while the application assumes this is not the case.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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