On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:20:23 +0100 (CET),
> Jaroslav wrote:
> >
> > Well, I and Abramo think that it's better to force application developers
> > to clean allocated things before they'll call exec().
>
> the problem is not only the explicit exec() call.
> without this bit, you'll pass the fds to other processes even by
> popen() or system() or whatever. that is, if your application calls
> an external program in the middle, it can block the operation.
>
> i don't see any critical drawback of setting FD_CLOEXEC as default.
> the application which needs to pass the alsa-lib's fds _explicitly_
> can reset the bit via fcntl() again before calling exec().
Do we have any precedence? sockets? fopen? etc.?
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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