>> Close-on-fork is apparently either coming or already here, [...]
> We don't have it, but it will be in Posix-8. [...] not sure if
> anyone has thought of a way to add it to socket() -
It's looking to me as though more and more syscalls are having to grow
flags arguments to do things right. Au
Date:Sun, 30 Apr 2023 05:25:41 +
From:David Holland
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| Close-on-fork is apparently either coming or already here, not sure
| which, but it's also per-descriptor.
We don't have it, but it will be in Posix-8. Largely inspired by the
needs of threa
> Close-on-fork is apparently either coming or already here, not sure
> which, but it's also per-descriptor.
I should probably add that here, then, though use cases will likely be
rare. I can think of only one program I wrote where it'd be useful; I
created a "close these fds post-fork" data stru
