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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Nate Karstens <nate.karstens@garmin.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	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>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	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>,
	a.josey@opengroup.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 08:57:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515155730.GF16070@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515152321.9280-1-nate.karstens@garmin.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Nate Karstens wrote:
> Series of 4 patches to implement close-on-fork. Tests have been
> published to https://github.com/nkarstens/ltp/tree/close-on-fork
> and cover close-on-fork functionality in the following syscalls:

[...]

> This functionality was approved by the Austin Common Standards
> Revision Group for inclusion in the next revision of the POSIX
> standard (see issue 1318 in the Austin Group Defect Tracker).

NAK to this patch series, and the entire concept.

Is there a way to persuade POSIX that they made a bad decision by
standardising this mess?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15 15:23 [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] fs: " Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] fs: Add O_CLOFORK flag for open(2) and dup3(2) Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] fs: Add F_DUPFD_CLOFORK to fcntl(2) Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] net: Add SOCK_CLOFORK Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:30 ` [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork Eric Dumazet
2020-05-15 15:59   ` David Laight
2020-05-15 15:57 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-05-15 16:07   ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-15 16:25     ` James Bottomley
2020-05-15 18:28       ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-15 18:43         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-25  8:16         ` Pavel Machek
2020-05-15 16:26     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-16 13:29   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-15 16:03 ` Al Viro
2020-05-15 16:26   ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-15 16:53   ` David Howells
2022-06-18 11:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-18 19:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-19 10:42     ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-28 13:13       ` Christian Brauner
2022-06-28 13:38         ` David Laight
2022-06-28 13:43           ` Christian Brauner

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