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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] posix: Add posix_spawn_file_actions_closefrom
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:00:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czw8yu4v.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edbc1a66-df74-1854-b03b-65bdc413167f@linaro.org> (Adhemerval Zanella's message of "Tue, 9 Mar 2021 16:48:48 -0300")

* Adhemerval Zanella:

>> I believe the closefrom should start add lowfd here, to check that the
>> closing is ordered with regards to the other operations.
>
> It is already doing in, doesn't it? The {lowfd, lowfd+1} only exists
> if closefrom is ordered regarding addopen and adddup2.

Okay, fair enough.  I would have expected that the closefrom call would
be in the middle of the action list.

>> If you implement the agressive up-to-INT_MAX closing in
>> __closefrom_fallback, this probably needs a flag that it disables it
>> when called from here.
>
> Ack, although I do not see much gain since it should be a fallback to
> a fallback.

Oh, I think we should fail if the open of /proc/self/fd fails.  There is
no reason to try very hard to avoid process termination.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-23 16:36 [PATCH v3 1/4] support: Add xclone Adhemerval Zanella
2020-12-23 16:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] Linux: Add close_range Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-09  9:47   ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-09 10:02     ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-09 17:53     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-09 18:30       ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-23 16:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] io: Add closefrom [BZ #10353] Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-09 10:23   ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-09 19:07     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-12-23 16:36 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] posix: Add posix_spawn_file_actions_closefrom Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-09 10:45   ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-09 19:48     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-09 20:00       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-03-09 20:04         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-03-09  9:19 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] support: Add xclone Florian Weimer
2021-03-09 16:17   ` Adhemerval Zanella

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