svn commit: r254872 - stable/8/lib/libc/gen
Jilles Tjoelker
jilles at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 25 15:01:44 UTC 2013
Author: jilles
Date: Sun Aug 25 15:01:43 2013
New Revision: 254872
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/254872
Log:
MFC 250421: posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(3): Document difference with
dup2().
The ability to clear a file descriptor's close-on-exec flag via
posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2() is in fact proposed in Austin Group issue
#411.
Modified:
stable/8/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen.3
Directory Properties:
stable/8/lib/libc/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/8/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen.3 Sun Aug 25 15:01:35 2013 (r254871)
+++ stable/8/lib/libc/gen/posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen.3 Sun Aug 25 15:01:43 2013 (r254872)
@@ -123,7 +123,19 @@ to be duplicated as
dup2(fildes, newfildes)
.Ed
.Pp
-had been called) when a new process is spawned using this file actions object.
+had been called) when a new process is spawned using this file actions object,
+except that the
+.Dv FD_CLOEXEC
+flag for
+.Fa newfildes
+is cleared even if
+.Fa fildes
+is equal to
+.Fa newfildes .
+The difference from
+.Fn dup2
+is useful for passing a particular file descriptor
+to a particular child process.
.Pp
The
.Fn posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose
@@ -169,7 +181,16 @@ The
and
.Fn posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose
functions conform to
-.St -p1003.1-2001 .
+.St -p1003.1-2001 ,
+with the exception of the behavior of
+.Fn posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2
+if
+.Fa fildes
+is equal to
+.Fa newfildes
+(clearing
+.Dv FD_CLOEXEC ) .
+A future update of the Standard is expected to require this behavior,
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen ,
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