2012/6/29 Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org>:
> #679198 is this bug.  Did you mean #635192?

Yes, sorry.

> In /usr/include/i386-kfreebsd-gnu/bits/fcntl.h :
>
>> #if _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
>> #define O_TTY_INIT      0x00080000      /* Restore default termios 
>> attributes */
>> /* Defining O_CLOEXEC would break kfreebsd 8.1, see #635192 */
>> /* #define O_CLOEXEC    0x00100000 */
>> #endif
>
> So it is undefined on purpose?

Correct.  Although leaving it undefined might be worse than defining
it.  E.g. consider programs doing:

/* use O_CLOEXEC if possible */
#ifndef O_CLOEXEC
#define O_CLOEXEC 0
#endif

fd = open (..., O_CLOEXEC);
// don't bother closing fd

But the decision is up to glibc maintainers.

-- 
Robert Millan



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