Re: [PATCH 1/4] hurd: Don't pass fd flags in CMSG_DATA

[Samuel Thibault]

Sergey Bugaev, le ven. 21 avril 2023 00:47:43 +0300, a ecrit:
> You could think of it that way: the
> infrastructure for passing an integer value along with the port is
> still there, but currently no valid flags for it are defined, and so 0
> is always used. We could spell it as
> 
> fds[i] = descriptor->flags & ~FD_CLOEXEC;
> 
> if you would prefer;

Yes, I'd prefer.

> but that would still always evaluate to 0 (but the compiler wouldn't
> be aware and would generate the extra instructions).

Yes, sure, but that still looks preferable to me maintenance-wise.

Samuel