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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-09-07 17:48:12 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2022-09-07 18:00:30 +0200
commita356ceebee000efe91a2a16dbcaa64d6c6a3a922 (patch)
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parent3cd488150416cac7bddbc270108545330c1fea4f (diff)
downloadguile-a356ceebee000efe91a2a16dbcaa64d6c6a3a922.tar.gz
Add support for "e" flag (O_CLOEXEC) to 'open-file'.
* libguile/fports.c (scm_i_mode_to_open_flags): Add 'e' case. (scm_open_file_with_encoding): Document it. * test-suite/standalone/test-close-on-exec: New file. * test-suite/standalone/Makefile.am (check_SCRIPTS, TESTS): Add it. * doc/ref/api-io.texi (File Ports): Document it. * NEWS: Update.
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@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ Changes in 3.0.9 (since 3.0.8)
* New interfaces and functionality
+** `open-file' now supports an "e" flag for O_CLOEXEC
+
+Until now, the high-level `open-file' facility did not provide a way to
+pass O_CLOEXEC to the underlying `open' call. It can now be done by
+appending "e" to the `mode' string passed as a second argument. See
+"File Ports" in the manual for more info.
+
** Abstract Unix-domain sockets are supported
It is now possible to create an AF_UNIX socket with a leading zero byte