[vdr] [patch] avoid inheritance of file descriptors

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...

[snip; FD_CLOEXEC]
> Why is this suddenly such a big problem?
> If a plugin wants to run an external program it can simply use
> SystemExec().

> Besides, as Darren Salt pointed out, this flag is apparently only available
> in the very latest kernel version, which I'm pretty sure is not that widely
> in use yet.

Er, no: FD_CLOEXEC has been available for years (see fcntl(2)). You're
confusing it with O_CLOEXEC, which is new.

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