[Xcb] [PATCH] Open the X11 socket with close-on-exec flag

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Mon Feb 15 15:13:33 PST 2010


In message <87y6iv2bdx.fsf at vertex.dottedmag> you wrote:
>  BCM> Some reason why the child doesn't just close the connection?
> 
> Child has literally no idea that the connection is there.

I'm not getting it?  The child is a fork of the parent; the
parent presumably knew the connection was there, since it
presumably opened it.

Is this just about making popen() work better?

	Bart


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