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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 09:31:14 -0500
Subject: Re: fork/exec & close file descriptors
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Linux (and possibly some other Unixes), /proc/self/fd may be of
> use.
>

Good point. Yes, /proc/PID/fd appears to contain all the entries for open
file descriptors (I am on Linux).

Skip

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