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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-08-22 18:42:10 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-09-26 21:10:00 -0400
commit864bdb3b6cbd9911222543fef1cfe36f88183f44 (patch)
treebd00e6293592a084ee0fe68e3acb93060f54ae68 /include/linux/fdtable.h
parent2be7fd55d44882c9818ed2d1dabc0f0abab5eeed (diff)
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new helper: daemonize_descriptors()
descriptor-related parts of daemonize, done right. As the result we simplify the locking rules for ->files - we hold task_lock in *all* cases when we modify ->files. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index fb7dacae0522..45052aa814c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ struct task_struct;
struct files_struct *get_files_struct(struct task_struct *);
void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *fs);
void reset_files_struct(struct files_struct *);
+void daemonize_descriptors(void);
int unshare_files(struct files_struct **);
struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *, int *);
void do_close_on_exec(struct files_struct *);