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From: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Guilherme Janczak <guilherme.janczak@yandex.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] [PATCH] add close_range() syscall wrapper
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:54:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cff701355849519f2d071551caa86a32@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2zVHruVQQYfmiYCpVJ0ha5nX_mvwoCNBX9x6qO79WUDDU_QA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2022-08-18 17:42, James Y Knight wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 6:40 AM Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
> wrote:
> 
>> Glibc doesn't implement a fallback and explicitly says it in the
>> manual.
>> Using a different implementation in musl seems undesirable.
> 
> True. I would note, however, that glibc also implements another
> function "closefrom", which first calls close_range, and if it fails,
> falls back to iterating /proc/self/fd.

Yes, but glibc's closefrom() *aborts* if there is no /proc, so it's not 
suitable for all use cases (and would not be suitable for CPython's 
subprocess or "os.closerange()", for instance).

Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-18 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-10 13:03 Guilherme Janczak
2022-08-18  0:35 ` Rich Felker
2022-08-18 10:11   ` Érico Nogueira
2022-08-18 10:40     ` Alexey Izbyshev
2022-08-18 14:42       ` James Y Knight
2022-08-18 14:54         ` Alexey Izbyshev [this message]
2022-08-18 12:31   ` Guilherme Janczak
2023-09-01  8:02 Natanael Copa
2023-09-01 13:57 ` Rich Felker
2023-09-01 14:55   ` Natanael Copa
2023-09-01 15:06     ` Rich Felker

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