Hi Not sure whether you care, given the age of the system involved, but I had to build dropbear for an ancient system with no support for the open() O_CLOEXEC flag, and it moaned at me.
My quick and dirty patch is attached. Feel free to ignore if you like: I'm unlikely to ever build anything for this system again (it's being retired Real Soon Now, thankfully). Geoff
dropbear-CLOEXEC.patch
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