On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:00, Jie Zhang wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Monday, July 18, 2011 21:35:15 Jie Zhang wrote:
>>>> So I came up this patch to solve this issue. You are more familiar with
>>>> fopen. Do you think this patch is a good idea?
>>>
>>> i think i'd rather have it be a define by itself.  something like
>>> FOPEN_CLOEXEC being defined to "e".  that way we dont have to create new
>>> defines for the various append modes as well.
>>
>> I don't understand this. If we use a macro for each extension mode, we
>> surely have to create new defines for each such mode, and we need to
>> modify each call site of fopen to append the macro.
>
> the issue is that i dont want to force every call site to use "e".
> only when we've looked at it and it makes sense, and the resulting
> code is clear in what flags it is using.  when i look at fopen("foo",
> FOPEN_RB), i think "ok, it's using rb".  it isnt clear that it's also
> using "e".  fopen("foo", "rb" FOPEN_MODE_E) is clear that it's using
> "rbe".
>
What do you mean by "looked at it and it makes sense"?

>>> rather than __GLIBC__ though, let's use __linux__.
>>
>> It's a GLIBC thing, not only for Linux.
>
> O_CLOEXEC is linux-specific.  every C library running under Linux
> should be picking up "e" support.
>
But 'e', which we are using, is a GLIBC extension.

Regards,
Jie

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