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Message-Id: <CM6SQ03E3UYV.3U3YIO6BTUIKU@mussels>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:58:40 -0300
From: Érico Nogueira <ericonr@...root.org>
To: "Rich Felker" <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove extraneous syscall from fopen(3)

On Mon Aug 15, 2022 at 2:54 PM -03, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 02:50:21PM -0300, Érico Nogueira wrote:
> > the __fdopen() call afterwards will set the close-on-exec flag with the
> > same syscall if "e" was specified in mode
> > ---
> >  src/stdio/fopen.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/stdio/fopen.c b/src/stdio/fopen.c
> > index e1b91e12..22b72edf 100644
> > --- a/src/stdio/fopen.c
> > +++ b/src/stdio/fopen.c
> > @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ FILE *fopen(const char *restrict filename, const char *restrict mode)
> >  
> >  	fd = sys_open(filename, flags, 0666);
> >  	if (fd < 0) return 0;
> > -	if (flags & O_CLOEXEC)
> > -		__syscall(SYS_fcntl, fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
> >  
> >  	f = __fdopen(fd, mode);
> >  	if (f) return f;
> > -- 
> > 2.37.2
>
> See commit 7765706c0584ed4a30e0b7a3ada742e490ef02b0

If the relevant part of that commit is that the flag is added
immediately after, would moving the SYS_fcntl call in __fdopen to the
top of the functon be acceptable?

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