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Re: Can we depend on FD_CLOEXEC always being supported?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Can we depend on FD_CLOEXEC always being supported? |
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Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:26:41 -0800 |
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On 01/08/12 14:46, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Aside from DOS_NT, do we support any platforms without FD_CLOEXEC?
No.
> Why wouldn't we want to use it unconditionally?
Outside of the DOS/NT environment, there's no reason these days.
Existing uses of "#ifdef FD_CLOEXEC" and the like are revenants
from platforms that are long ago obsolete and no longer used.