File operations in base and fork+exec

[Niklas Hambüchen]

Hi Merijn,

I have proposed the same 2 years ago:
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-July/120523.html

I am very much in support of that.

As mentioned, Python shows that one can pull that kind of change cleanly.

Niklas

On 23/06/17 10:46, Merijn Verstraaten wrote:
> I would like to propose that all operations in base open files with O_CLOEXEC by default and exposing an easy method to mark specific file descriptors to be preserved across exec