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On Nov 23, 2007 9:29 AM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
> Yes, it's disabled, and yes, I'll repost today ...

I haven't seen the patch and don't feel like searching.  So I say it
here: please mak sure you add a flags parameter to the system call
itself (instead of adding it on as for eventfd and signalfd).  We need
to be able to use O_CLOEXEC some way or another.