Re: Which way for posix_spawn close-on-exec improvements?

[Chris Hanson <cmhanson%eschatologist.net@localhost>]

On Apr 16, 2026, at 1:45 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 12:25:35AM -0700, Chris Hanson wrote:
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>> I'd love to hear thoughts on it. Neither seems like it'd be
>> particularly difficult to add. (Heck, we could have both if we wanted,
>> they don't really conflict?)
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> "Both" was my first gut reaction too. Both of them sound usefull.

And posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np is supported on Solaris and Linux too, not just FreeBSD, and it’d probably be very straightforward to just port the FreeBSD code.

Sounds like a plan!

  -- Chris