On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:18:27PM +0200, Cedric BAIL wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> >> are you sure that O_CLOEXEC and ACCESSPERMS are portable ?
>>
>> I hope they are. It's a pretty basic feature, being able to
>> automatically close a fd on exec. As for ACCESSPERMS it's just a macro
>> that should be provided by any unix system (would only means something
>> on them, but not much in the considered case).
>
> Neither is portable. O_CLEXEC is a mostly Linux specific short-cut for
> fcntl. Unless you really want to save a system call for all cost, just
> go with the portable appracoh.
>
>> > and that MAP_POPULATE does not need a too recent linux kernel ?
>
> This should be just conditionalized.

Agreed. Both should be conditionalized with configure detection.
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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