Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 2/5] ppc/cell: trivial: replace get_unused_fd() by get_unused_fd_flags(0)

From: Yann Droneaud <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:10:24 +0200

Hi,

Le mardi 14 octobre 2014 à 12:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
> On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 21:30 +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> > This patch replaces calls to get_unused_fd() with equivalent call to
> > get_unused_fd_flags(0) to preserve current behavor for existing code.
> > 
> > In a further patch, get_unused_fd() will be removed so that new code
> > start using get_unused_fd_flags(), with the hope O_CLOEXEC could be
> > used, either by default or choosen by userspace.
> > 
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
> > Cc: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <[email-masked]>
> 
> This is fine by me, do you want an ack, or do you want us to take it via the
> powerpc tree?
> 

The patch was added in -mm by Andrew, so I guess the patch will be
merged sooner or later.

Anyway, you could investigate to check if O_CLOEXEC could be used
instead of 0 in call to get_unused_fd_flags().

> If the former:
> 
> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
> 

Thanks a lot.

Regards.

-- 
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA