Dec 16, 2011
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Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32
In unix, file descriptors are inherited by child processes by default. This wasn't so much an active decision as it was a consequence of the fork/exec model. To exclude a file descriptor from being inherited by children, you set the flag on the file descriptor. Win32 sort of works like that, but backwards, and maybe a little upside-down. And i...