[Bug #2684] Set close-on-exec flag on all file descriptors

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=================== BUG #2684: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================
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Submitted by: archie172               Project: classpath                    
Submitted on: 
Severity:  5 - Major                  Resolution:  None                     
Assigned to:  None                    Status:  Open                         
Platform Version:  None               

Summary:  Set close-on-exec flag on all file descriptors

Original Submission:  The Java facilities for fork()'ing and exec()'ing
separate processes are more limited than general UNIX.
Only file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 can be meaningfully
inherited by a child process.

Therefore, all file descriptors opened in native code
should have "fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, 1)" called on them to
set the close-on-exec flag. Otherwise, the child process
might muck up the Java file descriptor by moving a file
pointer, etc.

This includes both java.io file descriptors as well
as java.net socket file descriptors. The latter are perhaps
more important because a child process can e.g. keep a TCP
connection open indefinitely even though the Java process
has closed it.




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