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From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork
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On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 08:57:30AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

Yeah.
But also, stuff like this should really be on linux-api.

Christian