Document O_CLOEXEC.

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Konstantin Belousov 2011-03-25 14:01:18 +00:00
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.\" @(#)open.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd February 28, 2009
.Dd March 25, 2011
.Dt OPEN 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ O_NOFOLLOW do not follow symlinks
O_NOCTTY don't assign controlling terminal
O_TTY_INIT restore default terminal attributes
O_DIRECTORY error if file is not a directory
O_CLOEXEC set FD_CLOEXEC upon open
.Ed
.Pp
Opening a file with
@ -231,6 +232,11 @@ from opening files which are even unsafe to open with
.Dv O_RDONLY ,
such as device nodes.
.Pp
.Dv O_CLOEXEC
may be used to set
.Dv FD_CLOEXEC
flag for the newly returned file descriptor.
.Pp
If successful,
.Fn open
returns a non-negative integer, termed a file descriptor.
@ -241,12 +247,18 @@ file is set to the beginning of the file.
When a new file is created it is given the group of the directory
which contains it.
.Pp
The new descriptor is set to remain open across
Unless
.Dv
O_CLOEXEC
flag was specified,
the new descriptor is set to remain open across
.Xr execve 2
system calls; see
.Xr close 2
.Xr close 2 ,
.Xr fcntl 2
and
.Xr fcntl 2 .
.Dv O_CLOEXEC
description.
.Pp
The system imposes a limit on the number of file descriptors
open simultaneously by one process.