On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Nate Karstens wrote: > Series of 4 patches to implement close-on-fork. Tests have been > published to https://github.com/nkarstens/ltp/tree/close-on-fork > and cover close-on-fork functionality in the following syscalls: [...] > This functionality was approved by the Austin Common Standards > Revision Group for inclusion in the next revision of the POSIX > standard (see issue 1318 in the Austin Group Defect Tracker). NAK to this patch series, and the entire concept. Is there a way to persuade POSIX that they made a bad decision by standardising this mess?
