[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | GnuTLS leaks file descriptors in child processes (#985)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Remi Denis-Courmont commented:


As far as I know, there are two ways to solve this (and none else):
- use the "e" flag to `fopen()` (specified in POSIX.next if I understood correctly, originating in glibc), or
- use `open() with the `O_CLOEXEC` flag followed by `fdopen()` (specified in POSIX.2008 already).

As to portability, you have four cases:
1) The OS does not support `fork()` (e.g. Windows): no need to do anything.
2) The OS supports `fork()`, lacks POSIX.2008: this is broken beyond repair.
3) The OS supports `fork()` and POSIX.2008: using `open()` then `fdopen()` is the only solution.
4) The OS supports both solutions.

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