On Jun 30, 4:39pm, marti...@google.com (Martin Buchholz) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Review request for 5049299
| In the JDK... | We close all non-relevant file descriptors in the child instead of relying | on | having the FD_CLOEXEC bit set properly for every fd in the parent. | | The technique of choice appears to be to read /proc/self/fd and | close all the fds found therein. | That's even portable between linux and solaris! Well, on solaris it is best to use closefrom(3C). I think some BSDs have it too, AIX, IRIX. So perhaps detect if it is there and use that instead ( or fcntl(fd, F_CLOSEM) if it exists. christos
