On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> After a respectable lunch at Boudin's, Ryan and I think we have the general
> answers
> to child handles.
>
> The apr_foo_open/create calls need an APR_INHERIT flag bit to mark resources
> as
> inheritable. This offers two advantages;
this sounds like the wrong approach.
the default should be to assume that all file handles are not inherited.
this is the 99% case for handle creation.
then as a "new process attribute" you list the handles which should be
inherited. (in general these would be just the 3 standard ones.)
it's possible to write a linux clone()-based fork() which inherits nothing
by default without having to do lame-ass stuff such as setting O_CLOEXEC
on every bloody handle. then you just open("/proc/parent/fd/n") to get
the handful of descriptors you wanted to inherit (or use other fd passing
methods). this should be a faster fork() off a large multithreaded, lots
of fds server.
and it's even simpler on windows... your API would seem to be worse for
windows than it needs to be.
-dean
