[ILUG] don't pass open file descriptor to children
Padraig Brady
Padraig at AnteFacto.com
Fri Jul 13 17:15:26 IST 2001
Perfect!
John P. Looney wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:05:02PM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:
>
>>Is there a flag you can set on a file descriptor (using fcntl or equivalent)
>>to tell the kernel not to copy that particular descriptor to forked
>>children?
>>
> I think so - the fnctl man page has;
> F_SETFD Set the close-on-exec flag to the value specified by the FD_CLOEXEC bit of arg.
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