Re: [PATCH] Add cloexec information to fdinfo

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jun 29 2011 - 14:06:38 EST


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So at least O_CLOEXEC seems to have a real reason, and fits the
> existing model. I think a patch like the attached would be ok. Does
> that work for you? It's entirely untested here.

Ok, minimally tested now, it seems to work from the one trivial
test-case I wrote for it.

I'm not going to commit it, but if others think this is a reasonable
thing to do and remind me during the next merge window, we can do it
then.

Linus
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