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Re: eventfd(2) and timerfd(2) APIs
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 07:43:32AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >> | else plumbs it through either, but I'll go ahead and do so.
> >>
> >> Please do. What other things don't permit fcntl() to work? We
> >> should fix any of those.
> >
> > Well, I?ll fix these 2 anyway.
>
> ?aaaaand I just double-checked this as well? F_GETFL and F_SETFL
> don?t need any specific hooks in the implementation; the flags are
> all handled in common code.
Pretty much all of fcntl does (or should) happen at the fd level;
that's why it's different from ioctl.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that anything in the fcntl path that
calls into the object is a bug...
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David A. Holland
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