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anarazel 56 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving beyond fork() + exec()

There's a bunch of nastiness around that too. If you have e.g. library state that assumes the fd still works you can get her very confusing bugs once another file is opened into that fd number...

JdeBP 56 days ago [–]

You may be mixing up fork and exec. Library data state isn't retained over execve(), and O_CLOEXEC does not take effect at fork().

anarazel 56 days ago | [–]

Indeed. Not enough coffee, apparently.

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