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+File Descriptors after fork()
+-------------------------------
+
+When opening a file::
+
+ fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
+
+In python, you can pass the ``close_fds`` argument to subprocess.Popen() to
+close all file descriptors just after fork().