Fair enough, but my point is that I'd expect the close-on-exec flag NOT to be set unless I explicitly set it myself. Same as with every other way of getting a file descriptor.
Chris --- Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Speaking as a userspace developer, I expect file > >descriptors to be inherited by child processes > unless > >I explicitly request otherwise. Yes, I usually make > >sure that I *DO* request otherwise, but that's not > the > >point... > > the question is not about inheritance by child > processes. its about > close-on-exec behaviour. nobody is proposing any > change to the > situation after a simple fork(2). > > --p __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
