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There's a bunch of nastiness around that too. If you have e.g. library state that assumes the fd still works you can get her very confusing bugs once another fi

There's a bunch of nastiness around that too. If you have e.g. library state that assumes the fd still works you can get her very confusing bugs once another file is opened into that fd number...

JdeBP 4mo ago
You may be mixing up fork and exec. Library data state isn't retained over execve(), and O_CLOEXEC does not take effect at fork().
- anarazel 4mo ago
  Indeed. Not enough coffee, apparently.