Unix FD Passing

[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>+#ifdef MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC
>+                       |MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC
>+#endif
>
>To work if this doesn't exist, we'd need to manually set cloexec later
>#ifndef MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC, right? Or else un-#ifdef this and just
>assume we have this if we have fd passing.

Same problem as the other CLOEXEC: you can't guarantee that the kernel 
you're running on understands these flags.

I haven't checked the kernel sources, but if it uses flags here like in 
open(2), it will ignore unknown flags. That means you get no indication 
that the kernel doesn't support MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC.

In other words, do fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) anyways.

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