Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] read-cache: make sure file handles are not inherited by child processes

[Eric Wong]

larsxschnei...@gmail.com wrote:
> +++ b/read-cache.c
> @@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ void fill_stat_cache_info(struct cache_entry *ce, struct 
> stat *st)
>  static int ce_compare_data(const struct cache_entry *ce, struct stat *st)
>  {
>       int match = -1;
> -     int fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY);
> +     int fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
> +
> +     if (O_CLOEXEC && fd < 0 && errno == EINVAL)
> +             /* Try again w/o O_CLOEXEC: the kernel might not support it */
> +             fd = open(ce->name, O_RDONLY);

In the case of O_CLOEXEC != 0 and repeated EINVALs,
it'd be good to use something like sha1_file_open_flag as in 1/2
so we don't repeatedly hit EINVAL.  Thanks.