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Subject: Re: Can we depend on FD_CLOEXEC always being supported?
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Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:

> Aside from DOS_NT, do we support any platforms without FD_CLOEXEC?
> Today, it's only used conditionally in the Emacs code. I don't see
> why: FD_CLOEXEC has been standard for a very long time (4.3BSD and
> SVr4). Why wouldn't we want to use it unconditionally?

emacs.c has a FD_CLOEXEC use protected only by ! DOS_NT since 2008-12-08.
We have no received any complaints about this, so the rest of the
FD_CLOEXEC conditionals can go.