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 ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- 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