On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:31:51 +1000
David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> There are several places in the passt code where we have lint overrides
> because we're not adding CLOEXEC flags to open or other operations.
> Comments suggest this is because it's before we fork() into the background
> but we'll need those file descriptors after we're in the background.
> 
> However, as the name suggests CLOEXEC closes on exec(), not on fork().

...after looking into it and trying to remember: it seems like the only
reason why I skipped O_CLOEXEC here was some bogus innate assumption I
had about file descriptors being closed on clone() too. Thanks for
spotting this.

-- 
Stefano