On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Eric Rannaud <e...@nanocritical.com> wrote: >> Yes, there definitely is a glibc bug: a fix is being worked on and it >> looks like it will go in. The change replaces the test for O_CREAT by >> a test for either O_CREAT or O_TMPFILE. > > Why not just do it unconditionally? There really is no downside. Doing > it conditionally only makes the generated code slower and mode > complex. For absolutely zero gain, as far as I can tell. Does any > architecture actually do anything wrong?
The immediate answer is "to keep the diff minimal". But I'll ask. -- Eric Rannaud <e...@nanocritical.com> Nanocritical, CEO -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
