Re: [PATCH 2/6] Open a directory with the usual flags

Sebastian Huber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/10/2018 11:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct  8 15:38, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> Use O_RDONLY since you are not supposed to write to a directory.
>>
>> Use O_DIRECTORY as mandated by POSIX (The Open Group Base Specifications
>> Issue 7, 2018 edition IEEE Std 1003.1-2017):
>>
>> "If the type DIR is implemented using a file descriptor, the descriptor
>> shall be obtained as if the O_DIRECTORY flag was passed to open()."
>>
>> Use O_CLOEXEC as mandated by POSIX:
>>
>> "When a file descriptor is used to implement the directory stream, it
>> behaves as if the FD_CLOEXEC had been set for the file descriptor."
>>
>> Drop the fcntl() call in favour of O_CLOEXEC.
> Yeah, that really makes sense, but what about targets not (yet)
> implementing O_CLOEXEC???  I'm not sure how to handle this, if
> we have to handle that at all.

In RTEMS there are no processes (fork(), exec(), etc. don't work). So, 
it is trivial to support the O_CLOEXEC. The situation in which this flag 
is relevant simply cannot happen.

Are Cygwin and Linux the only Newlib systems which supports processes?

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