Re: [PATCH] pppd/persist, linux 2.14.19+ - PPPIOCDETACH error

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:21:02AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> Would it make more sense to set the ppp fd to be close-on-exec so that
> the child process that runs ip-down doesn't inherit it? 
> fcntl(fd,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC)

Yep.  That fix has been suggested for some other problem as well and seems
better.

/fc
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