Is it possible to mark a specific file descriptor as not inheritable, or close it, in the child process when fork() is invoked?
Is it possible to mark a specific file descriptor as not inheritable, or close
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Is it possible to mark a specific file descriptor as not inheritable, or close it, in the child process when fork() is invoked?
No. All file descriptors are inherited in fork. You can set a fd to be closed on exec, however, by using
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC).