From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nate Karstens <nate.karstens@garmin.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Implement close-on-fork
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:13:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200422161343.GM23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200422160032.GL23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:00:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> *snort*
>
> Alan Coopersmith in that thread:
> || https://lwn.net/Articles/785430/ suggests AIX, BSD, & MacOS have also defined
> || it, and though it's been proposed multiple times for Linux, never adopted there.
>
> Now, look at the article in question. You'll see that it should've been
> "someone's posting in the end of comments thread under LWN article says that
> apparently it exists on AIX, BSD, ..."
>
> The strength of evidence aside, that got me curious; I have checked the
> source of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. No such thing exists in either of
> their kernels, so at least that part can be considered an urban legend.
>
> As for the original problem... what kind of exclusion is used between
> the reaction to netlink notifications (including closing every socket,
> etc.) and actual IO done on those sockets?
Not an idle question, BTW - unlike Solaris we do NOT (and will not) have
close(2) abort IO on the same descriptor from another thread. So if one
thread sits in recvmsg(2) while another does close(2), the socket will
*NOT* actually shut down until recvmsg(2) returns.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-22 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-20 7:15 Implement close-on-fork Nate Karstens
2020-04-20 7:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs: " Nate Karstens
2020-04-20 10:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-04-22 3:38 ` Changli Gao
2020-04-22 3:41 ` Changli Gao
2020-04-22 8:35 ` David Laight
2020-05-01 14:45 ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-01 15:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-03 13:52 ` David Laight
2020-04-22 15:36 ` Karstens, Nate
2020-04-22 15:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-22 16:02 ` Karstens, Nate
2020-04-22 16:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2020-04-22 16:55 ` David Laight
2020-04-23 12:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2020-04-20 7:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: Add O_CLOFORK flag for open(2) and dup3(2) Nate Karstens
2020-04-20 7:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] fs: Add F_DUPFD_CLOFORK to fcntl(2) Nate Karstens
2020-04-20 7:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Add SOCK_CLOFORK Nate Karstens
2020-04-22 14:32 ` Implement close-on-fork James Bottomley
2020-04-22 15:01 ` Al Viro
2020-04-22 15:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-22 15:34 ` James Bottomley
2020-04-22 16:00 ` Al Viro
2020-04-22 16:13 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-05-04 13:46 ` Karstens, Nate
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