From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we depend on FD_CLOEXEC always being supported? Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:26:41 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4F0A2631.9070808@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4F0A1CC6.5020208@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326065209 25716 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2012 23:26:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 23:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 00:26:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk28S-00025w-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:26:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk28O-0001sC-8C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk28L-0001rw-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:26:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk28K-0007qf-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:56646) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk28K-0007pa-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A00939E800D; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:26:27 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y7548U7h3scs; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:26:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E854739E800A; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:26:26 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <4F0A1CC6.5020208@dancol.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147493 Archived-At: On 01/08/12 14:46, Daniel Colascione wrote: > Aside from DOS_NT, do we support any platforms without FD_CLOEXEC? No. > Why wouldn't we want to use it unconditionally? Outside of the DOS/NT environment, there's no reason these days. Existing uses of "#ifdef FD_CLOEXEC" and the like are revenants from platforms that are long ago obsolete and no longer used.