On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> > 
> >     close(0);
> >     close(1);
> >     close(2);
> >     .. generate filenames, whatever ..
> >     if (open(..) < 0 || open(..) < 0 || open(..) < 0)
> >             die("Couldn't redirect stdin/stdout/stderr");
> > 
> > and there's absolutely nothing wrong with this kind of setup, even if you
> > could obviously have done it other ways too (ie by using "dup2()" instead of
> > "close + open"),
> 
> This kind of setup was OK 25 years ago, before multithreading era.
> You cannot reasonably expect it to work in a multithreaded program.

Who said _anything_ about threading?

The above is a totally non-threaded app. 99% of all applications are like 
that.

Threading is for the 1%. But 99% is what we need to make sure works.

                Linus

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