Adding file descriptor attribute(s) to gcc and glibc

David Malcolm dmalcolm@redhat.com
Wed Jul 13 19:26:37 GMT 2022


On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 14:30 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13/07/22 14:16, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 7/13/22 09:55, David Malcolm via Libc-alpha wrote:
> > > Are there other ways to close a FD other than calling
> > > "close" on it?
> > 
> > Yes, there's close_range(2).
> 
> 
> And closefrom (as a BSD extension supported by glibc).
> 

Thanks!

I don't think it makes sense to try to express the behavior of these
two via attributes, so I've filed:
  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106283
as an RFE to capture (eventually) special-casing them within gcc's -
fanalyzer (e.g. to avoid false "leak" reports)

Dave



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