On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 15:34, Jie Zhang wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> i dont want to force all call sites to use "e" all the time.  each
>>> instance should be reviewed before explicitly adding the "e" flag.
>>
>> In what case should we use 'e', in what case should we not use 'e'?
>
> it all revolves around forking.  for the most part we will want to use
> "e", but i dont want to blanket force everyone to it as your proposed
> changes would have to be undone in order to not use it.
>
Then what's the badness if we use 'e' where it does not need it? If
there is no or very little harmless badness, I would say let's force
every call site use it. As for the name, we can use a different one. I
just borrow the FOPEN_RB from Binutils. Maybe you will like FOPEN_R
and FOPEN_W, or FOPEN_READ and FOPEN_WRITE?

>>>>>>> rather than __GLIBC__ though, let's use __linux__.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a GLIBC thing, not only for Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> O_CLOEXEC is linux-specific.  every C library running under Linux
>>>>> should be picking up "e" support.
>>>>
>>>> But 'e', which we are using, is a GLIBC extension.
>>>
>>> it started out as a glibc extension, but other C libraries are
>>> supporting it as well.  like uClibc.
>>
>> I just took a look at uClibc. Maybe I missed something, but I didn't
>> see uClibc's fopen support 'e' mode.
>
> i thought it was, but if not, i'll push a commit to uClibc to add it :)
>
> ignoring that, uClibc itself defines __GLIBC__ already, and the
> version checks are unnecessary as glibc/uClibc skip unknown modes.
>
Ignoring unknown modes is required by the standard. To specify the
version accurately I try to avoid adding a comment to explain why we
write such code. I would like to add a check for uClibc's version
number for its next release when your patch goes in.

Jie

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