1 /* cloexec.c - set or clear the close-on-exec descriptor flag
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18 The code is taken from glibc/manual/llio.texi */
28 /* Set the 'FD_CLOEXEC' flag of DESC if VALUE is true,
29 or clear the flag if VALUE is false.
30 Return 0 on success, or -1 on error with 'errno' set.
32 Note that on MingW, this function does NOT protect DESC from being
33 inherited into spawned children. Instead, either use dup_cloexec
34 followed by closing the original DESC, or use interfaces such as
35 open or pipe2 that accept flags like O_CLOEXEC to create DESC
36 non-inheritable in the first place. */
39 set_cloexec_flag (int desc, bool value)
43 int flags = fcntl (desc, F_GETFD, 0);
47 int newflags = (value ? flags | FD_CLOEXEC : flags & ~FD_CLOEXEC);
50 || fcntl (desc, F_SETFD, newflags) != -1)
58 /* Use dup2 to reject invalid file descriptors; the cloexec flag
59 will be unaffected. */
65 if (dup2 (desc, desc) < 0)
66 /* errno is EBADF here. */
69 /* There is nothing we can do on this kind of platform. Punt. */
75 /* Duplicates a file handle FD, while marking the copy to be closed
76 prior to exec or spawn. Returns -1 and sets errno if FD could not
82 return fcntl (fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 0);