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Message-Id: <20080424.090008.232544945.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc:	jakub@...hat.com, drepper@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1

From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:24:44 +0100

> BTW in 4.4BSD and derivatives if I remember rightly F_CLOEXEC *is*
> inherited across accept() so I doubt any user space software will be too
> upset by such a shift.

It actually doesn't.

Just like in Linux, no file descriptor flags are inherited.
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