Re: Open master pty (/dev/ptmx) non blocking

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 05:34:26PM -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
 > It's not just O_NONBLOCK that can be expected/desired, vte wants to set
 > O_CLOEXEC as well. The Linux kernel accepts and applies both of those
 > flags in a posix_openpt(3) call.

There should be no path through open(2) where O_CLOEXEC doesn't work!
It is not a property of the underlying object. Or absolutely shouldn't
be, anyway.

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David A. Holland
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