On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 15:34, Jie Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> i dont want to force all call sites to use "e" all the time.  each
>> instance should be reviewed before explicitly adding the "e" flag.
>
> In what case should we use 'e', in what case should we not use 'e'?

it all revolves around forking.  for the most part we will want to use
"e", but i dont want to blanket force everyone to it as your proposed
changes would have to be undone in order to not use it.

>>>>>> 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.
>>
>> it started out as a glibc extension, but other C libraries are
>> supporting it as well.  like uClibc.
>
> I just took a look at uClibc. Maybe I missed something, but I didn't
> see uClibc's fopen support 'e' mode.

i thought it was, but if not, i'll push a commit to uClibc to add it :)

ignoring that, uClibc itself defines __GLIBC__ already, and the
version checks are unnecessary as glibc/uClibc skip unknown modes.
-mike

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