On 04/07/2014 07:02 AM, Vince Weaver wrote: > 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..." Fair enough. I've added the words "and fcntl(2)" after invokes perf_event_open(). Thanks, Michael. > but maybe that's just a small detail, I'm fine with the current text > otherwise. > > Vince > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
