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author Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> 2020-09-03 11:02:17 -0700
committer Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> 2020-09-03 11:02:17 -0700
commitf74f0b7168ed62014cd1de76f6c7da3a1446139c (patch)
tree55889acc09ae6e25b4901e053975f1cb7a3575dc
parent1baf553524bbead198336810ae0342c00a2bfb1c (diff)
Document that ASharedMemory_create fds may or may not be CLOEXEC.
Bug: https://issuetracker.google.com/165667331 Test: treehugger Change-Id: I0d6c2c4dd4ab48e05734dd89fa3aa10d4a793ed4
-rw-r--r--include/android/sharedmem.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/android/sharedmem.h b/include/android/sharedmem.h
index 6efa4f71cb..5f74682b40 100644
--- a/include/android/sharedmem.h
+++ b/include/android/sharedmem.h
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ extern "C" {
* another process. File descriptors may also be sent to other processes over a Unix domain
* socket with sendmsg and SCM_RIGHTS. See sendmsg(3) and cmsg(3) man pages for more information.
*
+ * If you intend to share this file descriptor with a child process after
+ * calling exec(3), note that you will need to use fcntl(2) with FD_SETFD
+ * to clear the FD_CLOEXEC flag for this to work on all versions of Android.
+ *
* Available since API level 26.
*
* \param name an optional name.