From 3bdf4d6641fb34d1c2f130abddb847169a793afe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Stephenson
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:42:53 +0100
Subject: 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.
---
Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo')
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo b/Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo
index 3a85e760f..6292af071 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ specified as a comma-separated list. The following is a list of possible
options. Note that, depending on the system, some may not be available.
startitem()
item(tt(cloexec))(
-mark file to be closed when other programs are executed
+mark file to be closed when other programs are executed (else
+the file descriptor remains open in subshells and forked external
+executables)
)
xitem(tt(create))
item(tt(creat))(
--
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