Now the child process inherits either every handle not specifically disabled for inheritance with O_NOINHERIT or fcntl(F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) or nothing if P_2_NOINHERIT is given. However, there are cases when the parent wants specific file handles to be inherited and sometimes even under a different file number in the child.
Now the child process inherits either every handle not specifically disabled for inheritance with O_NOINHERIT or
fcntl(F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)or nothing if P_2_NOINHERIT is given. However, there are cases when the parent wants specific file handles to be inherited and sometimes even under a different file number in the child.This is needed e.g. for Chromium, see https://github.com/bitwiseworks/qtwebengine-chromium-os2/issues/3#issuecomment-595739228.