[PATCH 3/3] posix: New Linux posix_spawn{p} implementation

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Feb 26 17:33:00 GMT 2016


On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> There is an inherent race condition in pipe2 usage for architectures 
> that do not support the syscall directly.  In such cases the a pipe plus 

But we don't have any such architectures after the increase in the minimum 
kernel for non-x86/x86_64.  The patch should be simplified accordingly.  
(__ASSUME_PIPE2 is still relevant in non-Linux-specific files, so can't be 
removed completely from glibc.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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