On 08/24/2009 12:58 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
I would see this as a bug in the Linux distro. They should use the oldest supported kernel, not the newest one, for running the configure scripts of all packages.
Distributions that (like RHEL) backport new features onto older kernels for many years would then not be able to use O_CLOEXEC at all (and so, they could not fix the race condition that O_CLOEXEC would meant to fix).
Paolo
