What does the FD_CLOEXEC fcntl() flag do?

C

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Like so:

if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) == -1) {
...

Though I've read man fcntl, I can't figure out what it does.

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Solution 1 - C

It sets the close-on-exec flag for the file descriptor, which causes the file descriptor to be automatically (and atomically) closed when any of the exec-family functions succeed.

It also tests the return value to see if the operation failed, which is rather useless if the file descriptor is valid, since there is no condition under which this operation should fail on a valid file descriptor.

Solution 2 - C

It marks the file descriptor so that it will be close()d automatically when the process or any children it fork()s calls one of the exec*() family of functions. This is useful to keep from leaking your file descriptors to random programs run by e.g. system().

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