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From: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] open: add close_range()
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 15:23:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521132252.y5wt7d7o4bdjns4e@brauner.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h89o9cng.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 03:10:11PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Christian Brauner:
> 
> >> Solaris has an fdwalk function:
> >> 
> >>   <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37843/closefrom-3c.html>
> >> 
> >> So a different way to implement this would expose a nextfd system call
> >
> > Meh. If nextfd() then I would like it to be able to:
> > - get the nextfd(fd) >= fd
> > - get highest open fd e.g. nextfd(-1)
> 
> The highest open descriptor isn't istering for fdwalk because nextfd
> would just fail.

Sure. I was thinking about other usecases. For example, sometimes in
userspace you want to do the following:
save_fd = dup(fd, <well-known-number-at-the-end-of-the-range);
close_range(3, (save_fd - 1));

Which brings me to another point. So even if we don't do close_range() I
would like libc to maybe give us something like close_range() for such
scenarios.

> 
> > But then I wonder if nextfd() needs to be a syscall and isn't just
> > either:
> > fcntl(fd, F_GET_NEXT)?
> > or
> > prctl(PR_GET_NEXT)?
> 
> I think the fcntl route is a bit iffy because you might need it to get
> the *first* valid descriptor.
> 
> >> to userspace, so that we can use that to implement both fdwalk and
> >> closefrom.  But maybe fdwalk is just too obscure, given the existence of
> >> /proc.
> >
> > Yeah we probably don't need fdwalk.
> 
> Agreed.  Just wanted to bring it up for completeness.  I certainly don't
> want to derail the implementation of close_range.
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-21 11:34 [PATCH 1/2] open: add close_range() Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] tests: add close_range() tests Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 12:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] open: add close_range() Florian Weimer
2019-05-21 13:04   ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 13:10     ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-21 13:18       ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 13:23       ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2019-05-21 13:07 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-05-21 13:12   ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 15:00 ` Al Viro
2019-05-21 16:53   ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 16:30 ` David Howells
2019-05-21 16:41   ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 20:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-22  8:12       ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 19:20   ` Al Viro
2019-05-21 19:59     ` Matthew Wilcox

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