On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >> on-exec flags at creation time, rather than later with
> >> fcntl(2), avoids potential race conditions where the
> >> calling thread invokes perf_event_open() at the same
> >> time as another thread calls fork(2) then execve(2).
> >
> > I'm not sure of a scuccint way to express that though.
>
> I think the existing text suffices.
My concern is that it should be
"where the calling thread invokes *fcntl()* at the same time..."
rather than
"where the calling thread invokes *perf_event_open()* at the same time..."
but maybe that's just a small detail, I'm fine with the current text
otherwise.
Vince
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