On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:51:25AM +0100, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> In a previous patch [1][2], flag PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC was
> added to perf_event_open(2) syscall to allows userspace
> to enable close-on-exec behavor atomically when creating
> the file descriptor.
> 
> This patch makes perf tools use the new flag.

What is that good for? I can see why for a threaded program, but 
"perf" is not threaded.

-Andi
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