On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 15:46 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 07-08-17 15:22:57, Michal Hocko wrote: > > This is an user visible API so make sure you CC linux-api (added) > > > > On Sun 06-08-17 10:04:23, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > > > A further complication is the proliferation of clone flags, > > > programs bypassing glibc's functions to call clone directly, > > > and programs calling unshare, causing the glibc pthread_atfork > > > hook to not get called. > > > > > > It would be better to have the kernel take care of this > > > automatically. > > > > > > This is similar to the OpenBSD minherit syscall with > > > MAP_INHERIT_ZERO: > > > > > > https://man.openbsd.org/minherit.2 > > I would argue that a MAP_$FOO flag would be more appropriate. Or do > you > see any cases where such a special mapping would need to change the > semantic and inherit the content over the fork again? > > I do not like the madvise because it is an advise and as such it can > be > ignored/not implemented and that shouldn't have any correctness > effects > on the child process. Too late for that. VM_DONTFORK is already implemented through MADV_DONTFORK & MADV_DOFORK, in a way that is very similar to the MADV_WIPEONFORK from these patches. I wonder if that was done because MAP_* flags are a bitmap, with a very limited number of values as a result, while MADV_* constants have an essentially unlimited numerical namespace available. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
