11 Dec
2007
11 Dec
'07
12:09 p.m.
I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
[snip; FD_CLOEXEC]
Why is this suddenly such a big problem? If a plugin wants to run an external program it can simply use SystemExec().
Besides, as Darren Salt pointed out, this flag is apparently only available in the very latest kernel version, which I'm pretty sure is not that widely in use yet.
Er, no: FD_CLOEXEC has been available for years (see fcntl(2)). You're confusing it with O_CLOEXEC, which is new.
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