Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.

From: Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 00:16:59 EST


Mark Mielke wrote:
> If the argument is that vfork(), exec()
> must scan the file descriptors to determine which ones have FD_CLOEXEC set,
> then perhaps the answer is to index the FD_CLOEXEC bits of file descriptors?

More precisely, to index the file descriptors whih do _not_ have the
FD_CLOEXEC bit set - those are the file descriptors to copy into the
new process.

A more relevant optimisation is to make searching for new file
descriptors O(1) in accept(), yet that was discussed years ago and it
was decided it wasn't worth doing.

-- Jamie
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