O_CLOEXEC

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
11 Apr 2000 23:12:26 -0700

Some time back somebody proposed to at O_CLOEXEC as a flag for open
which automatically sets the FD_CLOEXEC flag for the new file
descriptor. I've never heard a reason why this wasn't implemented.
It could save quite a few system calls in various daemons and also the
libc.

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