TRYING TOO HARD
Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for over 22 years.
Every once in a while, you see a discussion that blows up into one of those head-scratching moments. One where you ask yourself, “What was the story behind that one?” Recently, I came across such a gem in the form of a patch titled “Implement close-on-fork”. The actual patch is fairly pedestrian. It frees up some resources when forking a new process to prevent a possible race condition within the “system” C library function.