On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> It was suggested to me off-list that libpq should do
> "fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)" on the socket connecting to the server.
> This would prevent any child program from accidentally or maliciously
> interfering with the connection.
Either way that the lib sets it, the client can alter the setting itself
by issuing a new SETFD command. I would not have expected it to be set
but it is probably a good idea for most clients (and for most file
descriptors).
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/Dennis Björklund