[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH XEN v8 26/29] tools/libs/*: Use O_CLOEXEC on Linux and FreeBSD
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:23:05PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > In some cases this replaces an FD_CLOEXEC dance, in others it is new. > > Linux has had O_CLOEXEC since 2.6.23 (October 2007), so we can rely on > it from Xen 4.7 I think. Some libc headers may still lack the > definition, so we take care of that if need be by defining to 0 (on > the premise that such an old glibc might barf on O_CLOEXEC even if the > kernel may or may not be so old). > > All stable versions of FreeBSD support O_CLOEXEC (10.2, 9.3 and 8.4), > and we assume the libc there does too. > > Remove various comments about having to take responsibility for this > (since really it is just hygiene, politeness, not a requirement) and > the reasons for using O_CLOEXEC seem pretty straightforward. > > Backends for other OSes are untouched. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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