Re: linux has added "close on exec" flags to lots of fd calls

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:42:54PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Linux seems to be adding lots of flags to things like "open" to set
> close on exec from the time an fd is born. They claim this helps with
> security.

I don't think this argument makes much sense, but for multi-threaded
programs having something like POSIX spawn around it better anyway.

It is trivial to support in the compat code. The API compat issue is IMO
much less pressing as it won't work anywhere else so code should be
fixed to be portable.

Joerg