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Re: libcurl and sock_cloexec

From: Ben Noordhuis <info_at_bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:04:50 +0200

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 23:41, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> I guess the question could perhaps also be put the other way: could there
> actually and realistically be any harm in making the sockets use F_CLOEXEC
> unconditionally?

Backwards compatibility? The child process needs to handle EBADF from
select() or poll().
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Received on 2011-04-26