On 9/5/07, Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> wrote:
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>     O_CLOEXEC (Since Linux 2.6.23)
>           Enable   the  close-on-exec  flag  for  the  new  file
>           descriptor.  This is useful in multithreaded  programs
>           since  using  a separate fcntl(2) F_SETFD operation to
>           set the FD_CLOEXEC flag does not suffice to avoid race
>           conditions  in multithreaded programs where one thread
>           opens a file descriptor at the same  time  as  another
>           thread does a fork(2) plus execve(2).

Correct, although you might want to reconsider the repetition of "in
multithreaded programs".

Plus, it's also useful in other programs since it avoids the
additional system call to fcntl.
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