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Re: BZ#15722: create all sockets with SOCK_CLOEXEC

From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:20:48 +0100
Subject: Re: BZ#15722: create all sockets with SOCK_CLOEXEC
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Hi!

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:29:34 -0800 (PST), Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we actually can require SOCK_CLOEXEC support nowadays, but we
> haven't ever explicitly said so before.  (For Linux configurations,
> __ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC is always set since we now support only kernels
> new enough.  For the Hurd, *_CLOEXEC are actually implemented entirely
> in libc, though SOCK_CLOEXEC is not actually implemented yet.

I have pending patches for the latter -- from 2008 ;-) -- which just need
some cleanup before integration, but which we've been using ever since in
our internal glibc maintenance branch, so don't let that be a hindrance.

GrÃÃe,
 Thomas

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