From: Rafael Santos <rafael@thinkfreak.com.br>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:47:54 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0FEZ108QF0E0ZT86OYT835Z64PJ.3eade7da@rafaelnote.ns1.lhost.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030427234215.D16041@almesberger.net>
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This is not the point.
4/27/03 11:42:15 PM, Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> wrote:
>Mark Grosberg wrote:
>> fmap[0] = in[0]; /* STDIN */
>> fmap[1] = out[1]; /* STDOUT */
>> fmap[2] = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); /* STDERR */
>> fmap[3] = -1; /* end */
>>
>> p = nexec("/bin/cat",
>> null_argv,
>> NULL,
>> filmap);
>
>How about
>
> fdrplc(3,fmap);
> exec("/bin/cat",...);
>
>?
>
>0) System call names must be short and cryptic :-)
>1) Requiring the kernel to iterate over the array element by element
> in order to find out how big it is may be inefficient. Better to
> pass the length.
>2) System call overhead is marginal, particularly in this case.
>3) There may be other uses than exec(2), where a way for closeing
> all fds and getting a new set may be useful.
>
>- Werner
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-28 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-28 0:57 [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 0:59 ` Larry McVoy
2003-04-28 1:16 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 1:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-28 1:45 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 1:49 ` dean gaudet
2003-04-28 1:59 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 2:27 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-28 19:07 ` dean gaudet
2003-05-01 13:14 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-04-28 1:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-04-28 1:28 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-29 2:01 ` Rafael Costa dos Santos
2003-04-28 1:41 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-28 1:49 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 2:19 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-04-28 6:59 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-28 1:35 ` dean gaudet
2003-04-28 1:43 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 3:44 ` Mark Mielke
2003-04-28 5:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-28 2:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-04-28 2:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 2:12 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 2:42 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-28 6:35 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-29 2:47 ` Rafael Santos [this message]
2003-04-28 3:20 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-28 13:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 13:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-28 13:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 13:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-28 14:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 14:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-28 14:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-28 14:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-28 16:36 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-28 17:19 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-04-28 18:28 ` Craig Ruff
2003-05-06 2:48 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-29 18:50 ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-28 2:32 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-04-28 7:40 ` Mirar
2003-04-28 12:45 ` Matthias Andree
2003-04-29 1:05 ` Rafael Costa dos Santos
2003-04-28 1:19 ` Mark Grosberg
2003-04-29 1:29 ` Rafael Costa dos Santos
2003-04-28 3:03 Davide Libenzi
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