Re: FD_CLFORK or equivalent?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 4 May 1999 15:15:11 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 4 May 1999, Sam Roberts wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> This is a question about implementing a module access policy
> where only the process that opened a device can have a copy
> of that fd, i.e. I want the fd closed on fork().
>
switch(fork())
{
case 0: /* Child */
(void)close(fd);

In Unix, we close what we want, when we want.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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