Re: [PATCHv6] perf tools: enable close-on-exec flag on perf file descriptor

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:28:47PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> In commit a21b0b354d4a ('perf: Introduce a flag to enable
> close-on-exec in perf_event_open()'), flag PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC
> was added to perf_event_open(2) syscall to allows userspace
> to atomically enable close-on-exec behavor when creating
> the file descriptor.
> 
> This patch makes perf tools use the new flag if supported
> by the kernel, so that the event file descriptors got
> automatically closed if perf tool exec a sub-command.
> 
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've addressed the issues reported by Jiri Olsa,
> please have a look at the update patch.

hi,
I'll queue this one

thanks,
jirka
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