>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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
