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R3 Xlib: file descriptors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue May 2 22:17:54 1989

Date: Tue, 2 May 89 22:17:37 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

The file descriptor opened to the X server should probably have the
close-on-exec flag set with fcntl; this avoids strange problems like
forked-off subprocesses (that don't grok X) keeping windows open even
after the X client has gone away....

-- Ken

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