hi, On Sat, Mar 21, 2015, at 01:27, Jürg Billeter wrote: > Doesn't the following standard POSIX functionality provide what you > want? > > fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 0)
Yes. It does. Thank you very much. It seems that this is a (slightly) recent addition. It's documented: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC (int; since Linux 2.6.24) so I'm sure we'll probably still need to write an ifdef with a fallback... The wider question about the usefulness of O_CLOEXEC still stands. Cheers _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list