On 10/07/2018 17:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
I agree with this approach - it parallels the efforts made with
O_CLOEXEC in past years.
According to
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=socket&sektion=2
SOCK_CLOEXEC is also available on freebsd.
This is something that doesn't come up too often, I assume because most
developers using ProcessBuilder/Process rather than invoking fork from
native code.
If we are going to tackle this issue then it will require changes in
several places, changing PlainSocketImpl.c is just one of several.
-Alan
