On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Ben Noordhuis 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().

Hm, ok. So there's no really easy solution to this then. I think I'll prefer
not doing anything then, and having applications that really need SOCK_CLOEXEC
use a callback for it.

If someone has another opinion, let's hear some ideas on how to use this
option without harming existing users.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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