Feature #3666
Implement SOCK_CLOEXEC flag to socket()
Start date:
2013-04-01
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Estimated time:
1.00 h
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
Gerrit CR:
Description
Allow creating a socket with the close-on-exec flag set as it is added to the process file table. This prevents the race between socket() and fcntl(..., F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC). This is implemented on Linux and Solaris 11.
The implementation is non-obvious in that it bastardizes the "type" argument to socket and bitwise-inclusive-OR's a flag onto it. But as software is written that uses it, we might as well support it.
History
Updated by Theo Schlossnagle over 7 years ago
Updated by - % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from New to Resolved