/* A comment in mdb_fopen() explains some O_* flag choices. */
MDB_O_RDONLY= O_RDONLY, /**< for RDONLY me_fd */
MDB_O_RDWR = O_RDWR |O_CREAT, /**< for me_fd */
- MDB_O_META = O_RDWR |MDB_DSYNC, /**< for me_mfd */
- MDB_O_COPY = O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, /**< for #mdb_env_copy() */
+ MDB_O_META = O_RDWR |MDB_DSYNC |MDB_CLOEXEC, /**< for me_mfd */
+ MDB_O_COPY = O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|MDB_CLOEXEC, /**< for #mdb_env_copy() */
/** Bitmask for open() flags in enum #mdb_fopen_type. The other bits
* distinguish otherwise-equal MDB_O_* constants from each other.
*/
*
* The lockfile needs FD_CLOEXEC (close file descriptor on exec*())
* to avoid the flock() issues noted under Caveats in lmdb.h.
+ * Also set it for other filehandles which the user cannot get at
+ * and close himself, which he may need after fork(). I.e. all but
+ * me_fd, which programs do use via mdb_env_get_fd().
*/
#ifdef _WIN32
rc = ErrCode();
#ifndef _WIN32
else {
- if (which == MDB_O_LOCKS) {
+ if (which != MDB_O_RDONLY && which != MDB_O_RDWR) {
/* Set CLOEXEC if we could not pass it to open() */
if (!MDB_CLOEXEC && (flags = fcntl(fd, F_GETFD)) != -1)
(void) fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, flags | FD_CLOEXEC);