On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Before we can have constructive arguments, we first need to understand > what you are actually proposing. Most of your mail was an extended > whine about inadequacies of posix in general, and fd inheritance in > particular. Jasper asked the right question: > > Will you accept patches that add cloexec-correctness where it is > missing, in the future ? > > Are you actually suggesting that we rip out all code that is currently > doing the right thing, cloexec-wise ?
>From Ryan's original email: > So: starting today I'm going to stop worrying about O_CLOEXEC being set > on every file descriptor that GLib creates. I'm not going to go and > retroactively tear things out where they are already working, unless it > would provide a substantial cleanup or fixes an actual bug. I'm not > just going to go around looking for #ifdefs to remove. So, I would say no. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
