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authorPeter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>2019-07-02 13:42:53 +0100
committerPeter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>2019-07-02 13:42:53 +0100
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44480: Don't automatically close externally visible file descroptors.
These are descriptors marked FDT_EXTERNAL.

Make all sysopen'ed file descriptors FDT_EXTERNAL.

Make =(...) call closem() consistent with other substitutions.

Document file descriptors are left open.
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/mod_socket.yo b/Doc/Zsh/mod_socket.yo
index 867f6081f..78d9254e8 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/mod_socket.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/mod_socket.yo
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ startitem()
 item(tt(zsocket) tt(-l) [ tt(-v) ] [ tt(-d) var(fd) ] var(filename))(
 tt(zsocket -l) will open a socket listening on var(filename).
 The shell parameter tt(REPLY) will be set to the file descriptor
-associated with that listener.
+associated with that listener.  The file descriptor remains open in subshells
+and forked external executables.
 
 If tt(-d) is specified, its argument
 will be taken as the target file descriptor for
@@ -56,7 +57,8 @@ tt(zsocket -a) will accept an incoming connection
 to the socket associated with var(listenfd).
 The shell parameter tt(REPLY) will
 be set to the file descriptor associated with
-the inbound connection.
+the inbound connection.  The file descriptor remains open in subshells
+and forked external executables.
 
 If tt(-d) is specified, its argument
 will be taken as the target file descriptor for the