-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Davide Libenzi wrote: > Isn't this better be a global process flag? Default should be, for legacy > reasons,
No. Policies are always wrong since it means code that cannot change the policy (e.g, all runtime libraries) have no access to the functionality. I cannot set the policy to default to close-on-exit in glibc all the while the application assumes this is not the case. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGXxcK2ijCOnn/RHQRAmM9AKC5BEIEBsgwhWx09aAMA0CwsesMWQCfScGr vCF+Ih1lDP5rliY8D2Om5vU= =ZShC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
