Re: [Nmh-workers] O_CLOEXEC

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> You know, if I had my druthers I'd rather just write the code to use
> the older but more widely supported fcntl() call to set FD_CLOEXEC;
> that would avoid an autoconf test and make Lyndon happier :-) Also,
> it looks like O_CLOEXEC is not actually part of POSIX?  There are
> also a bunch of calls to fopen() and for that we'd need to use
> fcntl() there.

Good points.  All the more reason to wrap the opens + fcntl().

David