[PATCH] SOCK_CLOEXEC for opening sockets

[Norman Maurer]

+1 I think this makes a lot of sense


> On 10. Jul 2018, at 17:54, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/07/2018 17:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> I agree with this approach - it parallels the efforts made with O_CLOEXEC in past years.
>> 
>> According to 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=socket&sektion=2 <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=socket&sektion=2>
>> SOCK_CLOEXEC is also available on freebsd.
>> 
> This is something that doesn't come up too often, I assume because most developers using ProcessBuilder/Process rather than invoking fork from native code.
> 
> If we are going to tackle this issue then it will require changes in several places, changing PlainSocketImpl.c is just one of several.
> 
> -Alan

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