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Diffstat (limited to 'CODING_STYLE')
| -rw-r--r-- | CODING_STYLE | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index 1748dc4bc4..feb1a9dd67 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -232,3 +232,10 @@ "return" to exit from the main function of a process. If you fork()ed off a child process, please use _exit() instead of exit(), so that the exit handlers are not run. + +- Please never use dup(). Use fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 3) + instead. For two reason: first, you want O_CLOEXEC set on the new fd + (see above). Second, dup() will happily duplicate your fd as 0, 1, + 2, i.e. stdin, stdout, stderr, should those fds be closed. Given the + special semantics of those fds, it's probably a good idea to avoid + them. F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC with "3" as parameter avoids them. |