Akira Tanaka <akr / fsij.org> wrote:
> I'd like to set FD_CLOEXEC for all file descriptors (except 0, 1, 2,
> i.e. standard input/output/error).
> 
> I talked this issue with kosaki and matz at RubyKaigi 2011 and
> matz said "do it" and see that someone will cry or not.

I support this proposal for Ruby 2.0.  Very few applications depend on
FD passing via exec() and they can easily be updated to set
close_on_exec=false.

I've just updated git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git myself.