From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: close-on-exec doesnt work for spawn*()
26 May 1998 17:22:18 -0700
Message-ID: <199805262351.TAA28909.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@kramden.cygnus.com>
To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, newsham AT lava DOT net
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

>> There is also a SetHandle function that would do this on a Win32 basis, but
>> I believe it is only available for NT 4 and beyond.
>> 
>> The bottom line is that I don't think there is any foolproof way to do this.
>
>Hmm.. don't you have to explicitely set some flag to make handles
>inheritable?

Yes.  You set a boolen value to TRUE in a SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR (or something
like that).  That would make the handle inheritable/non-inheritable but it
doesn't cover the fcntl() case.
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