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Re: [RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: [RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:12:42 +0100

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blake<address@hidden> wrote:
> The name proposed in this mail is O_NOSTD (implying that a successful
> result will not be any of the standard file descriptors); other ideas
> mentioned on the bug-gnulib list were O_SAFER, O_NONSTD, O_NOSTDFD.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-08/msg00358.html
>
> Thoughts?

Mostly yes,  I like it.

I'd like to explicitly vote against O_SAFER, because there may be (for
some systems or in the future) some other way of making open(2) safer.
  I'd vote positively for O_NOSTDFD or O_NOSTD.

James.




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