[ruby-core:22899] Re: [Feature #1291] O_CLOEXEC flag missing for Kernel::open

In article <[e-mail]>,
  Nobuyoshi Nakada <[e-mail]> writes:

> Is it Linux only?

Yes.

I think O_CLOEXEC should be used internally if Ruby sets
close-on-exec flag for file descriptors, as Perl.
(See $SYSTEM_FD_MAX in perlvar.)

I guess Ruby may do it in future to avoid the race
condition.  The problem may be more realistic with MVM.

However it changes system and exec incompatibly (on Unix).
If it is changed and someone really want to inherit a file
descriptor, system("command") need to be changed to
system("command", fd=>fd).

IO.popen and spawn doesn't affected because they close
unrelated file descriptors by default.
-- 
Tanaka Akira