On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Chris Rankin wrote:
> --- 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.
I fully agree here.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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