From: Alan Burlison <alan.burli...@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:52:46 +0000
> an implicit shutdown() it would mean that well-written applications > that handled the scoping, sharing and reuse of FDs properly could just > call close() and have it work the same way across *NIX platforms. This semantic would only exist after Linux version X.Y.Z and vendor kernels that decided to backport the feature. Ergo, this application would ironically be non-portable on Linux machines. If portable Linux applications have to handle the situation using existing facilities there is absolutely zero value to add it now because it only will add more complexity to applications handling things correctly because they will always have two cases to somehow conditionally handle under Linux. And if the intention is to just always assume the close() semantic thing is there, then you have given me a disincentive to ever add the facility. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
