--- Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Setting FD_CLOEXEC automatically doesn't make the > library less powerful. > You can still unset the flag yourself __if you > really need the feature__ > of inherited ALSA FD's. But wouldn't FD_CLOEXEC be > the "reasonable > default" setting, which is correct for 99% of all > applications?
Most of those "99% of all applications" don't spawn child processes at all and so don't care one way or another. (And did you know that 98.68% of all statistics are invented ;-)?) All of the remaining applications should be considering what will happen to their resources on exec(), and I see no reason why careless programmers should have a few of their bugs swept under the rug for them. Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
