From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-07-21T07:51:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38280] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5041][Open] Set FD_CLOEXEC for all fds (except 0, 1, 2)

Akira Tanaka <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
> I'd like to set FD_CLOEXEC for all file descriptors (except 0, 1, 2,
> i.e. standard input/output/error).
> 
> I talked this issue with kosaki and matz at RubyKaigi 2011 and
> matz said "do it" and see that someone will cry or not.

I support this proposal for Ruby 2.0.  Very few applications depend on
FD passing via exec() and they can easily be updated to set
close_on_exec=false.

I've just updated git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git myself.