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1 /* cloexec.c - set or clear the close-on-exec descriptor flag
3 Copyright (C) 1991, 2004-2006, 2009-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
18 The code is taken from glibc/manual/llio.texi */
20 #include <config.h>
22 #include "cloexec.h"
24 #include <errno.h>
25 #include <fcntl.h>
26 #include <unistd.h>
28 /* Set the 'FD_CLOEXEC' flag of DESC if VALUE is true,
29 or clear the flag if VALUE is false.
30 Return 0 on success, or -1 on error with 'errno' set.
32 Note that on MingW, this function does NOT protect DESC from being
33 inherited into spawned children. Instead, either use dup_cloexec
34 followed by closing the original DESC, or use interfaces such as
35 open or pipe2 that accept flags like O_CLOEXEC to create DESC
36 non-inheritable in the first place. */
38 int
39 set_cloexec_flag (int desc, bool value)
41 #ifdef F_SETFD
43 int flags = fcntl (desc, F_GETFD, 0);
45 if (0 <= flags)
47 int newflags = (value ? flags | FD_CLOEXEC : flags & ~FD_CLOEXEC);
49 if (flags == newflags
50 || fcntl (desc, F_SETFD, newflags) != -1)
51 return 0;
54 return -1;
56 #else /* !F_SETFD */
58 /* Use dup2 to reject invalid file descriptors; the cloexec flag
59 will be unaffected. */
60 if (desc < 0)
62 errno = EBADF;
63 return -1;
65 if (dup2 (desc, desc) < 0)
66 /* errno is EBADF here. */
67 return -1;
69 /* There is nothing we can do on this kind of platform. Punt. */
70 return 0;
71 #endif /* !F_SETFD */
75 /* Duplicates a file handle FD, while marking the copy to be closed
76 prior to exec or spawn. Returns -1 and sets errno if FD could not
77 be duplicated. */
79 int
80 dup_cloexec (int fd)
82 return fcntl (fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 0);