Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: implement pipe2 syscall

[Riku Voipio]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:23:28PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:08:32PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > But it's not a bug to call execve(), or fork() then execve(), in
> > > another thread at the same time as descriptors are being created.
> > > Those calls scan the whole file descriptor table, and look at the
> > > FD_CLOEXEC flags.
> >
> > Now this discussion would be much more useful if qemu was actually
> > properly threadsafe to begin with...

> For usermode emulation it is.

Ok, I was under impression that threads in qemu linux-user were still
considered broken.

I'll see what would be the best way handle the CLOEXEC flags in a safe
manner.