Re: Possible race in pserver leading to broken pipe error?

[Derek Robert Price]

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Larry Jones wrote:

>On the contrary, dup() just gives you another handle to the same open
>file description -- the modes, pointers, etc. are *shared* by both fds.
>To get independence, you have to open the file again.


Except the close-on-exec flag isn't shared.  And closing one dup'd file
descriptor does not close the other.  My man pages and what I could find
via the recent opengroup link you sent, only list the close-on-exec flag
as being maintained separately.  Is there anything else?

Derek

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