From c7d427797363b164b954025265d9b55d367685b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:32:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] pipe.2: minor: Explicitly mention FD_CLOEXEC flag Explicitly name FD_CLOEXEC constant when referring to "close-on-exec flag". Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/pipe.2 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/pipe.2 b/man2/pipe.2 index 8a2fb46c5..780f3b142 100644 --- a/man2/pipe.2 +++ b/man2/pipe.2 @@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ Using this flag saves extra calls to to achieve the same result. .TP .B O_CLOEXEC -Set the close-on-exec flag on the two new file descriptors. +Set the close-on-exec +.BR ( FD_CLOEXEC ) +flag on the two new file descriptors. See the description of the same flag in .BR open (2) for reasons why this may be useful.