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Re: Can we depend on FD_CLOEXEC always being supported?
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Dan Nicolaescu |
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Re: Can we depend on FD_CLOEXEC always being supported? |
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Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:44:42 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
> Aside from DOS_NT, do we support any platforms without FD_CLOEXEC?
> Today, it's only used conditionally in the Emacs code. I don't see
> why: FD_CLOEXEC has been standard for a very long time (4.3BSD and
> SVr4). Why wouldn't we want to use it unconditionally?
emacs.c has a FD_CLOEXEC use protected only by ! DOS_NT since 2008-12-08.
We have no received any complaints about this, so the rest of the
FD_CLOEXEC conditionals can go.