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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-11-08 02:52:52 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-11-08 02:52:52 +0000
commitb0014e5ac00850569bd66e36e89520b1314a647f (patch)
treed7dbd29220af60de0b50dec1fcdfed3ada62e856 /pod/perlvar.pod
parente63a07aa01fbea927c64d4bc9f16cdc3e55c7b78 (diff)
downloadperl-b0014e5ac00850569bd66e36e89520b1314a647f.tar.gz
set close-on-exec bit on pipe() FDs
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2215
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
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@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ descriptors are not. Also, during an open(), system file descriptors are
preserved even if the open() fails. (Ordinary file descriptors are
closed before the open() is attempted.) Note that the close-on-exec
status of a file descriptor will be decided according to the value of
-C<$^F> at the time of the open, not the time of the exec.
+C<$^F> when the open() or pipe() was called, not the time of the exec().
=item $^H