Re: [Devel] Close on exec for font files

[Scott Long]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:24 am, you wrote:
> Around 11 o'clock on Dec 26, David Turner wrote:
> > What do you mean "across exec" exactly ??
>
> I mean using:
>
>         ret = fcntl (fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);

I thought of this but it seems like tremendous overkill to put something like 
this into the library. Better to just call FT_Done_FreeType() and let the 
library clean up all its files as it wishes.

As I said in my earlier email, just call FT_Done_FreeType after you fork() 
and before you exec().

Regards,
Scott Long