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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, ktietz@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Minor O_CLOEXEC optimization, "regression" fix
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gdmqqbv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131009174124.GA20135@host2.jankratochvil.net>

> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:41:24 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, ktietz@redhat.com,
>         gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:28:54 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This patch confused me: it tests whether O_CLOEXEC is zero, which it
> > is on Windows, so there should be no need to try "e" at all.
> 
> If O_CLOEXEC is 0 then the "e" flag is not tried at all, therefore it could
> not crash on MS-Windows.

That's what I thought.

> > Therefore, I don't understand why this is still an issue.  What am I
> > missing?
> 
> On platforms where O_CLOEXEC is 0 this new patch has no effect.

Then why did you ask this upthread:

> May one rely on MS-Windows fopen("","re") will fail with EINVAL if it fails
> because of the "e" flag, Kai?  It is in GDB function gdb_fopen_cloexec.

?  That's what confused me.  Sorry if I missed something.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-09 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 18:32 Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-08 19:44 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-09 13:10   ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 13:34     ` Kai Tietz
2013-10-09 14:41       ` [patchv2] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 15:48         ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-09 16:01           ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 17:07       ` [patch] " Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-09 17:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-09 17:08       ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-09 17:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-09 17:41           ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 17:58             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-09 18:37               ` Jan Kratochvil
2013-10-09 19:08                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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