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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 13:10:36 +1200
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> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com 
> <mailto:rosuav@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Linux (and possibly some other Unixes), /proc/self/fd may be of
>     use.

On MacOSX, /dev/fd seems to be the equivalent of this.

-- 
Greg