On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blake<e...@byu.net> wrote: > The name proposed in this mail is O_NOSTD (implying that a successful > result will not be any of the standard file descriptors); other ideas > mentioned on the bug-gnulib list were O_SAFER, O_NONSTD, O_NOSTDFD. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-08/msg00358.html > > Thoughts?
Mostly yes, I like it. I'd like to explicitly vote against O_SAFER, because there may be (for some systems or in the future) some other way of making open(2) safer. I'd vote positively for O_NOSTDFD or O_NOSTD. James.
